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California, United States

Providing software and consulting services to companies building ML / AI applications powered by time series data

• Founded and ran a startup developing machine learning solutions for the industrial IoT space
• Managed all aspects of the company’s business and recruited a team of ML and data engineers
• Raised over $1.5M in seed financing from strategic investors as well as several Silicon Valley angels
• Closed commercial contracts worth > $750K with multiple Fortune 500 industrial enterprises

San Francisco, CA, US

• First ML / Data Science hire at iRhythm; recruited and managed initial ML team
• Put in place a strategy to upgrade the company's production ECG analysis algorithms from rule-based to ML-based
• Developed cloud-based and edge-based rhythm inference ML models for Autotrigger product
• Worked closely with executive team to explore strategic opportunities for ML

Mountain View, CA, US

• Led the company’s efforts in machine learning & data science
• Recruited initial DS team to derive insights from the company’s ECG database
• Key team member in core business areas, inc. product dev, licensing, strategy

Palo Alto, CA, US

• Performed medical image analysis and probabilistic modeling of cancer imaging data
• Researched approaches for integrating imaging and genomics data
• Worked extensively on DCE-MRI and hypoxia PET imaging in mouse models
• Led a small team of research scientists validating a novel blood biomarker (PRDX6) for anti-EGFR response

Oxford, Oxfordshire, GB

Three wonderful years as a JRF at New.

Oxford, GB

Gave undergraduate engineering tutorials in mathematics, electricity & electronics, digital logic & computers, and control theory.

Oxford, UK, GB

• Commercialized my PhD research on automated ECG signal analysis
• Key member of the team at OBS Medical that developed the BioQT product
• Wrote the core ECG analysis engine, inc. HMMs, Viterbi, wavelet transforms

Oxford, Oxfordshire, GB

Thesis: Probabilistic Models for Automated ECG Interval Analysis

New York, New York, US

• Member of the Repo Systems team in IT
• Developed a new application to manage the firm's inter-company collateral

Armonk, New York, NY, US

• Member of the CICS/ESA System Integrity Test Department
• Spent 6 months converting CICS test cases from COBOL into C:-)

Dphil, Machine Learning & Signal Processing

Msc By Research, Pattern Analysis And Neural Networks

Master Of Engineering (Meng), Engineering And Computing Science