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Team

We are a highly multidisciplinary team of biologists, data scientists, engineers and MBAs, passionate about transforming and accelerating infectious disease diagnostics  – from days down to minutes.
We are PhAST.

Team

Roman Stocker, PhD
Prof. ETH

Co-founder and
Chief Scientific Officer

John (JT) Sauls, PhD

Chief Executive Officer

Vicente Fernandez, PhD

SVP of Data Science

Yongkyu Kim, MS

Chief Financial Officer and
Head of Operations, Asia

William Shubert

Head of Software

Jordan Bell, PhD

Head of Product

Sandro Giacomuzzi, MS

Senior Machine Learning Specialist

Yangsook (Kimy) Kim, MS

Finance and Operations Manager

Giulio Imbalzano, PhD

Senior Data Scientist

Honggu Jung

Lab Supervisor

Alexandra (Ali) McCully, PhD

Scientist II

Dohyun Kim

Quality Assurance Lead

Lucia Marinozzi, MS

Data Scientist II

Francesca Murabito, PhD

Data Scientist II

Jack Furci

Software Engineer II

Han Jae (Jay) Kim

Assay Development Engineer

Ariana Paulo, MS

Research Associate II - Microbiology

Matthew Phibbs, MS

Bio & Product Engineer II

Seongwoo Kwon, MS

Senior Research Associate I

Andrew Anctil, MS

Data Scientist I

Taesung Yang

Research Associate II

Francesca Riva

Data Scientist I

Ishita Rathi

CO-OP Intern

Yuvaraj Goenka

CO-OP Intern

Advisors

Robin Patel, MD, PhD

Scientific Advisor
Dr. Patel is the Director of the Infectious Diseases Research Laboratory and the Chair of the Division of Clinical Microbiology at the Mayo Clinic. She is also the President of the American Society for Microbiology. Dr. Patel’s focus areas include diagnostic assays in clinical bacteriology, biofilm-mediated infections, novel antimicrobial agents for therapy of bacterial infections and the clinical detection and identification of bacteria and their antimicrobial resistance and susceptibility.

Sanjat Kanjilal, MD, MPH

Scientific Advisor
Dr. Kanjilal is the Associate Medical Director of Clinical Microbiology and an infectious diseases physician at Brigham & Women’s Hospital, and a Lecturer in the Department of Population Medicine at the Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute. Dr. Kanjilal’s expertise centers on improving diagnostics for bacterial infection, understanding the emergence and spread of antibiotic resistance, and developing antimicrobial stewardship interventions to prevent antibiotic resistance infections.

Adrian Egli, MD, MPH

Clinical Advisor
Prof. Adrian Egli is Head of Clinical Microbiology at the University Hospital Basel. Prof.Egli brings broad expertise on antibiotic resistance and host-pathogen interactions, and has extensive expertise in novel diagnostic assays for rapid identification and antibiotic resistance analysis of pathogens.

Andreas Krause, PhD

AI/ML Advisor
Andreas Krause is a Professor of Computer Science at ETH Zurich, where he leads the Learning & Adaptive Systems Group. He also serves as Academic Co-Director of the Swiss Data Science Center and Chair of the ETH AI Center, and co-founded the ETH spin-off LatticeFlow.
Prof. Andreas Krause brings extraordinary expertise in machine learning and is a crucial advisor for the development of PhAST’s cutting-edge AI technology.

Kyoung-ho Song, MD, PhD

Clinical Advisor
Prof. Song currently serves as the Professor at Seoul National University Bundang Hospital (SNUBH) and Seoul National University College of Medicine. He has been working as an infectious diseases specialist more than ten years in the hospital, and has also participated the hospital infection control team and antimicrobial stewardship program (ASP) in SNUBH.

Jeongsu Park, MD, PhD

Clinical Advisor
Prof. Park currently serves as Associate Professor and the Chief of Department of Laboratory Medicine at Seoul National University Bundang Hospital (SNUBH). He is an active member of the Korean Society of Laboratory Medicine and the Korean Society of Clinical Microbiology.

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