Trained as a scientist, working as a founder.

Now

I'm cofounder and CEO at Leah Health, a startup spun out of my work at the MATRIX AI Consortium. We're building a multi-agent clinical decision support tool for trauma transfers. In severe trauma, faster transfers can improve outcomes. The system shortens the decision time and takes friction out of the process around it.

I'm still affiliated with MATRIX, where I work with trauma care physicians across Texas like Brian Eastridge and Ronald Stewart. I'm also working with Carey Priebe at Hopkins to answer the question: what does it mean to put performance guarantees on an LLM in a clinical setting?

How I got here

I grew up in North Carolina and went to NC State, where I studied biomedical engineering and biology, and where I worked on electrochemical sensors in the Sombers Lab.

I then went to Johns Hopkins for a Master's and PhD with Joshua Vogelstein at the NeuroData Lab. We worked on hypothesis testing in high-dimensional data (specifically, how to detect statistical relationships in settings when classical methods fall short). I built algorithms (KMERF, Nonparametric MANOVA) and the Python packages they live in (hyppo, treeple). Some of that work fed into early cancer detection projects with researchers like Bert Vogelstein.

Outside of work

I run the Ramchandra Panda Scholarship Trust in Balasore, Odisha. It started as a math competition for 50 kids in my home village and has grown to support 300+ rural students. When I'm not at a keyboard, I'm probably with my friends and family.

Get in touch

The best way to reach me is email. I'm open to chats about clinical AI, hypothesis testing, building research tools that don't suck, or anything happening at Leah.