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Team

We’ve been assembling a team with a rare combination of life, data, and computer sciences backgrounds, across business and engineering.


Savan Devani

Savan Devani

Savan is the Founder and CEO at BioTrillion.

Savan has spent his entire life in life sciences, including over 12 years on Wall Street focused in Healthcare Investment Banking at firms such as Citigroup and Deutsche Bank.  From Analyst through Managing Director, Savan worked with hundreds of life sciences clients through their journey from private to public corporations.  He has executed 40 M&A, IPO, and financing deals, totaling over $35 billion across the spectrum of drug, diagnostic, and device technologies.   These companies included Amgen, Anacor, Boston Scientific, Eli Lilly, Intermune, Map Pharma, Masimo, Medtronic, Omeros, Pacific Biosciences, and many others.  While a Vice President at Deutsche Bank, he was selected to lead the firm's build-out of its healthcare business unit into Asia, leading to two of China's largest IPO's.

Savan began his career as a Bioengineer at Life Technologies.

Savan holds a M.S.E. in Bioengineering from the University of Pennsylvania
and a B.S.E. in Bioengineering focused in Computer Science from the University of California at Berkeley.

After many years of academic and professional experience in the healthcare field, a painful personal experience later in life gave Savan new perspective into how much healthcare needed to change – his mother was abruptly diagnosed with stage IV cancer.  The journey through her battle compelled Savan to ask “where were all the signs” and “isn't there a better way,” which led to him returning to his Bioengineering roots and founding BioTrillion.

Derrick Mo

Derrick Mo

Derrick is a Deep Learning Engineer at BioTrillion.

With an extensive background in finance, and an extension of knowledge into Deep Learning, Derrick is helping advance BioTrillion's commercial applications at the intersection of Deep Learning, Computer Vision, and Physiology.   His role is versatile across learning and executing the Company's technology and business objectives, with a particular emphasis on our deep learning platform, BioEngine4D, and portfolio of digital biomarkers.

He has several years of experience at firms such as Sun Life Global Investments in the financial services industry and was awarded 1st place Visualization Award in ‘18 and ‘19 at Sun Life Global Predictive Analytics Competition.

Derrick is passionate about advancing BioTrillion's mission because of his own experience in unlocking value creation from arbitrage opportunities via cutting-edge technologies.

Derrick holds a B.S. in Business from Harvard University,
a MBA from the University of Toronto,
and a M.S. in Computer and Information Technology at the University of Pennsylvania.
In addition, he holds credentials as a Certified Financial Planner (CFP) and Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA).

Juan Beron

Juan Beron

Juan is a Computer Vision Engineer at BioTrillion.

He is experienced with different machine learning techniques and different applications for deep learning, particularly focused on artificial intelligence for the analysis and processing of images and videos.  Previously, he was employed at DeepVision, where he gained experience in segmentation, object detection in densely packed images, and video tracking.

Juan is passionate about advancing BioTrillion's mission because, as an applied mathematician, he sees the ability to advance healthcare by shifting physiologic observations and analyses from qualitative to quantitative.

Juan holds a B.S. in Electronic Engineering and a B.S. in Applied Mathematics from the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, one of the most prominent universities in Colombia.

His theses for mathematics and engineering obtained honors distinction and he received a scholarship to spend one year in Germany as part of his major in electronic engineering.

Rishab Gulati

Rishab Gulati

Rishab is a Machine Learning Engineer at BioTrillion.

He was previously a Data Scientist at the La Jolla Institute for Immunology working on Single Cell RNA-Sequencing Analysis.

Rishab holds an M.S. in Computer Science with specialization in Machine Learning from UC San Diego.

Rithik Jain

Rithik Jain

Rithik is a Business Intern at BioTrillion.

With his passion for cutting-edge developments in the Healthcare space, Rithik has Co-founded a healthcare accelerator called Health Engine, served as President of a Healthcare Consulting Organization on campus, and is researching in the Department of Energy's "Keasling Lab" looking for enzyme-based renewable jet fuel.  Additionally, he dances Bollywood/Hip-Hop fusion on the Zahanat dance team, and served as President of his professional fraternity Alpha Epsilon Zeta.  Ultimately, Rithik is dedicated to increasing equitable care access for patients at an early age regardless of their socioeconomic status or health literacy.

Rithik is currently completing his BS degrees in Business, Biology, and African American Studies at UC Berkeley.

Jen A. Aye

AI Intern

Jen is a Digital Intern at BioTrillion.

She wears multiple hats assisting us from all aspects of Tech to Business.  Jen was previously trained by an expansive corpus of human knowledge and is an incredibly fast learner.

Jen holds a LLM degree from GP University and and is passionate about safely advancing healthcare for humans around the world.

(A satirical note intended to encourage smaller teams to embrace AI as a productivity multiplier)




Advisors


Dr. Gady Agam, PhD

Gady Agam

Dr. Agam is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at the Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, where he directs the Visual Computing Lab.  His research interests include computer vision, machine learning, deep learning, geometric modeling, and human–computer interaction.  Some current application areas in his group include medical imaging (2D and 3D), remote sensing, point cloud processing, video analysis, segmentation, recognition, registration, biometrics, and security.

Dr. Agam is passionate about advancing BioTrillion's mission because of the number of untapped insights hidden in the mobile computation and extraction of visual disease expressing features that can be measured through computer vision.

Dr. Agam holds a Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Ben-Gurion University in Israel.

Dr. David Kirk, PhD

David Kirk

Dr. Kirk was at NVIDIA (NASDAQ: NVDA) for over 20 years, and served in many roles, including Chief Scientist, Vice President of Architecture, and most recently, Fellow.

Dr. Kirk received the Distinguished Alumni award from Caltech in 2009.  He was elected in 2006 to the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) for his role in bringing high-performance graphics to personal computers.  In 2002, he received the SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics Achievement Award for his role in bringing high-performance computer graphics systems to the mass market.  Dr. Kirk is the inventor of more than 60 patents and patent applications relating to graphics design and has published more than 50 articles on graphics technology.  He also co-authored the popular textbook “Programming Massively Parallel Processors.”

Dr. Kirk is passionate about advancing BioTrillion's mission because he is a pioneer in visual computing, GPUs, and AI, and sees the opportunity in applying this to healthcare, as many diseases express visual features that can be better detected if measured as optical digital biomarkers, powered by AI.

Dr. Kirk holds B.S. and M.S. degrees from MIT and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from Caltech, with a minor in Computation and Neural Systems.

Dr. Sebastiaan Mathot, PhD

Sebastiaan Mathot

Dr. Mathot is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Experimental Psychology of the University of Groningen in the Netherlands.

His research expertise is deeply in the field of ocular physiology and is extensively involved in the role that pupillary dynamics play in how we perceive the world and revealing neurologic diseases.

Dr. Mathot is passionate about advancing BioTrillion's mission because, well, he is one of the world's top 5 researchers (based on h-index and citations scores) in the ocular biomarker domain and is responsible for many seminal research studies in the field, including "Pupillometry: Psychology, Physiology, and Function."

Dr. Mathot holds a Ph.D. from VU University in Amsterdam.

Dr. Solomon Su, PhD

Solomon Su

Dr. Su is a seasoned Bioengineer with over 20 years of experience in the medical device and pharmaceutical industry.  His expertise includes combinational device and pharmaceutical formulation.  He spent the majority of his professional career at Biosensors International, where he rose through the ranks to Director of R&D, until the Company’s acquisition.

Dr. Su has extensive experience in taking conceptual R&D ideas to human clinical trial and finally to commercialization.  He is inventor/co-inventor of 32 issued worldwide patents and 25 pending patent applications.

Dr. Su is passionate about advancing BioTrillion's mission because he sees the power of enabling 1B humans to objectively measure their health in 5 second selfies - orders of magnitude faster and cheaper than it takes to drive a car out of the driveway to travel to a routine Provider appointment.

Dr. Su holds a B.S. degree in Chemical Engineering, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center.

Dr. Zitong Yu, PhD

Zitong Yu

Dr. Zitong Yu is currently a postdoctoral researcher at ROSE Lab of Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.   In 2021, he was previously a visiting scholar at Torr Vision Group of the University of Oxford, UK.

He has published research works on top-tier journals and conferences such as IEEE TPAMI, SPM, TIP, CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, IJCAI, AAAI, and more.   He won 1st Place in the ChaLearn Multi-Modal Face Anti-Spoofing Attack Detection Challenge with CVPR’20.   He also co-organized the 3D High-Fidelity Mask Face Presentation Attack Detection Challenge with ICCV’21 and the first Challenge on Remote Physiological Signal Sensing with CVPR’20.   Dr. Yu's ICCV’19 paper on remote heart rate measurement was granted IEEE Finland Section Best Student Conference Paper Award of 2020.

Dr. Yu is passionate about advancing BioTrillion's mission of using a common smartphone to optically unlock physiologic insights hidden in the human eyes and face, particularly via his expertise in rPPG (remote photoplethysmography), the next generation and contactless form of pulse oximetry.

Dr. Yu holds B.E. and M.S. degrees from University of Nantes in France and Guangdong University of Technology in China, respectively.   And also holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from University of Oulu, Finland.


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