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Austin, Texas, Us

Selected Achievements:- Established and led an engineering organization, implemented quality management system (QMS) processes, and developed strategic product roadmaps.- Drove the delivery of Clairity's inaugural FDA-grade cloud application for breast cancer risk prediction.- Developed cutting-edge, production-grade computer vision models to predict breast cancer risk from mammograms.- Steered the scientific and engineering efforts for 4 substantial software engineering releases and 3 FDA De Novo pre-submissions, significantly enhancing product offerings.- Improved Company’s security posture and completed first HIPAA audit.- Designed and implemented machine learning tools for image data quality assurance pipeline, including a large image segmentation model, noise power spectrum analysis, and large-scale data clustering, resulting in improved data analysis and reliability.- Authored comprehensive roadmap for end-to-end ML training and application development as well as key guidance documents on ML drift monitoring and training ML models without outcome data, providing crucial resources for the team.

Durham, North Carolina, Us

Led data science and engineering organization to develop commercial AI-based clinical application software for the radiology and cardiology markets.

Nashville, Tennessee, Us

Created and Lead the Artificial Intelligence (AI) Research & Development organization for Change Healthcare, Enterprise Imaging business. The team’s mission is to develop AI-based viable solutions for the Radiology and Cardiology markets.1. AI Research & Development strategy (AI roadmap, use case validation using the Design Thinking methodology)2. Data partnerships (data rights, costs, data privacy)3. R&D partnerships and co-development4. AI End-to-End development from building the entire data pipeline, to medical image labeling, model training, model validation, product integration into Change Healthcare imaging products, external validation with customers, and product clinical workflow experience5. AI Toolkit release management: intended use, software requirements/design, testing, etc.6. Innovation and Intellectual Property7. Marketing support: 3rd party AI vendor evaluation, trade shows8. AI education: speaker in AI conferences, AI webinars, User meetings, and blogs Keywords: Computer Aided Detection and Diagnosis (CADe, CADx), Google Cloud Platform, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Convolution Neural Networks, Natural Language Processing, Active Learning, Neural Structured Learning, Generative Adversarial Networks, Semi-supervised learning.

Consultant to medical device and healthcare IT startups (machine learning, data science, clinical research, R&D, software product development)+ Nuvaira (Plymouth, MN)Provide expertise in COPD imaging biomarkers as well as support for clinical research activities of company's lung denervation device.+ Medibio Limited (Savage, MN)Lead data science team and activities to analyze heart rate circadian patterns from wearable sensors, provide rich and actionable mental health insights using deep learning AI.

Develop and productize Nucleus.io new generation of cloud-based radiology software using state-of-the-art web-based and machine learning technologies.• Drive Company’s machine learning and predictive analytics initiative: strategy, data storage management, system specifications to support 1 million radiology studies, database and metadata dictionary specifications, machine learning pipeline using deep learning methods.• Initiate, grow and manage Company’s Intellectual Property portfolio.• Lead high performance development team consisting of architects, software engineers, algorithm developers and UI designers to develop state-of-the-art cloud-based radiology workstation in coordination with StatRad teleradiology clinical experts.• Provide input to the architecture, technology and product roadmaps to support clinical and machine learning deliverables; Perform day to day engineering management in the context of Agile development (Kanban, Scrum).

Coralville, Iowa, Us

Grew VIDA's quantitative imaging business and technology to support the emergence of safer, more efficient, and more personalized lung therapies for COPD, lung cancer, and asthma.Selected Achievements:- Helped raise series B bridge funding ($2.5M) and grow Company- Developed new partnerships with major lung device and pharmaceutical companies, and helped capture multiple millions of dollars in new business- Developed successful relationships with strategic KOLs of top European and US institutions leading to the development of new markets for VIDA- Opened and managed Company's office in Minnesota- Provided vision and operational leadership for intellectual property, scientific, clinical design trial, and product development activities- Changed Company's strategy towards predictive medicine and solving concrete pulmonary care challenges- Achieved significant progress in expanding Company's differentiated technology portfolio (+48%) despite limited resources- Increased significantly the strategic value of VIDA’s intellectual property portfolio (+25%)- Raised the level of excellence in product development and science produced, materialized by international product and scientific awards, and publications in highest impact journals in the respiratory field

Minnetonka, Minnesota, Us

Managed research team and scientific collaborations with customers and partners. Acted as Vital Images Engineering Liaison for all engineering integration efforts with Toshiba Medical Systems.Selected achievements:- Expanded development collaborations with Toshiba Medical Business units- Rolled out first Company's Intellectual Property program- Led Company's efforts that resulted in a Qualifying Therapeutic Discovery Project grant ($1.45M)

Minnetonka, Minnesota, Us

Led Company's clinical application development activities and Company's core advanced visualization software releases.­Selected achievements:- Managed and mentored R&D team of +25 engineers regularly recognized for higher achievement- Delivered and launched 4 major releases of Company's flagship imaging diagnostic software- Delivered an abdominal aortic aneurysm software for Medtronic CT eXpress program- Expanded engineering product development activities with Toshiba CT business unit- Generated product and research clinical roadmaps, multi-modality and CAD strategies

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Project manager for Computer Aided Detection (CAD) chest Computed Tomography releases. Developed CAD algorithms in close collaboration with expert radiologists using Machine Learning. Provided support for clinical studies, regulatory affairs, business and upstream marketing activities.Selected achievements:- Designed and developed first CAD systems for lung nodule and pulmonary emboli in the market- Provided support for validation and FDA (PMA) approval of technology- Developed successful collaboration with world renowned team, published 8 peer-reviewed papers

Designed and developed advanced image/video processing algorithms for mobile appliances.

In charge of investigating, designing, and developing advanced image-video processing algorithms for interactive television applications.

Stanford, Ca, Us

Conducted research in Professor R. Gray's group in joint source and channel coding, image denoising using wavelets, and information theory.

Post Doctorate, Electrical Engineering

Phd, Electrical Engineering