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.
Kwangmin Son, PhD
Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer
Kwangmin trained as an engineer working at the interface of mechanical and biological engineering at MIT, where he earned his PhD before becoming an entrepreneur. Kwangmin brings strong expertise in combining microbial imaging and microfluidics, and he has been leading PhAST’s business, financing and corporate development strategies. He aspires to contribute to fight the spread of antibiotic resistance through PhAST’s AI diagnostic technology.
Roman Stocker, PhD, Prof. ETH
Co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer
Roman pioneered single-cell imaging approaches to study microorganisms. A professor of engineering at ETH Zurich, formerly on the faculty at MIT, Roman published over 110 papers, including more than 25 in Nature, Science and PNAS, on computer vision applied to bacteria, the quantification of microbial phenotypes from single-cell imaging, and innovative microfluidic technology for microbiology. His work has been recognized by numerous major awards, including an NSF CAREER award and an Investigator award from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation. Roman’s vision is that creative diagnostic technology will be a major asset in our fight against antibiotic resistance, in developed and developing countries alike.
Team
Vicente Fernandez, PhD
SVP of Data Science
Yongkyu Kim, MS
Head of Operations, Asia
William Shubert
Head of Software
John (JT) Sauls, PhD
VP of Engineering
Andrew Anctil, MS
Data Scientist I
Jordan Bell, PhD
Head of Product
Jack Furci
Software Engineer II
Sandro Giacomuzzi, MS
Senior Machine Learning Specialist
Giulio Imbalzano, PhD
Senior Data Scientist
Honggu Jung
Lab Supervisor
Dohyun Kim
Quality Assurance Lead
Hanjae Kim
Assay Development Engineer
Yangsook (Kimy) Kim, MS
Finance and Operations Manager
Seongwoo Kwon, MS
Senior Research Associate I
Lucia Marinozzi, MS
Data Scientist II
Alexandra (Ali) McCully, PhD
Scientist II
Francesca Murabito, PhD
Data Scientist II
Ariana Paulo, MS
Research Associate II - Microbiology
Matthew Phibbs, MS
Bio & Product Engineer II
Francesca Riva
Data Scientist I
Taesung Yang
Research Associate II
Nikitha Sam
Clinical Research Associate (Contract)
Ishita Rathi
CO-OP Intern
Yuvaraj Goenka
CO-OP Intern
Advisors
Sankha (Bobby) Basu, MD, PhD
Clinical Advisor
Dr. Basu is a pathologist and clinical microbiologist with extensive experience in the design and development of novel diagnostic technologies. He currently serves as Associate Director of Microbiology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Before joining Brigham and Women’s, Dr. Basu led clinical and regulatory initiatives at PhAST and served as Director of Clinical Microbiology at Tufts Medical Center. He received his MD and PhD from UPenn, completed his clinical pathology residency and microbiology fellowship training at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and later joined the faculty at Harvard Medical School.
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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