THE
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.
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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