Work

• Data Scientist at the Pandemic Tracking Collective (advising Rockefeller Foundation's Pandemic Prevention Institute), 2021-2023
• Data Science & Data Visualization Lead at The COVID Tracking Project, 2020-2021
• Geospatial ML Consultant at GFDRR Labs (World Bank), 2019-20
• Strategy & Product at UPMC Enterprises, 2015-17
• Product Manager at Canopy Apps (medical language interpretation services), 2015
• Co-Founder & CEO at Earth2Globe (Afghan saffron export and e-commerce), 2012-15
• Co-Founder & CEO at Jeevan (medical knowledge sharing platform), 2014
• Partner at man goes mobile (mobile health consultancy), 2013-2014
• Telemedicine Consultant at Telecom Development Company Afghanistan dba Roshan, 2012-13
• Head of Strategy, promoted from Senior Manager at Telecom Development Company Afghanistan dba Roshan, 2011-12

Education

• MD, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, 2013
• MBA, Harvard Business School, 2011
• BS, magna cum laude, in Neurobiology & Behavior, Cornell University, 2006

Select Works

COVID-19:

• A User's Guide to US Vaccine Breakthrough Rates (Pandemic Tracking Collective)
• The Clearest Sign the Pandemic Could Get Worse (The Atlantic)
• Federal COVID Data 101: Working with Hospitalization Numbers (The COVID Tracking Project)
• Visualizing COVID-19's Impact on Hospitals Across the Country (The COVID Tracking Project)
• New HHS Dataset Tells Us Precisely Where COVID-19 Is Hitting Hospitals (The COVID Tracking Project)
• What We've Learned About the HHS's Hospitalization Data (The COVID Tracking Project)
• US Hospital Historical Bed Capacity Map (CovidCareMap)

Geospatial Data and Machine Learning:

• Machine Learning and Satellite Imagery Overview (presented at Cloud Native Geospatial Outreach Day 2020, awarded "Best Teacher - Intro level")
• The Open Cities AI Challenge (machine learning dataset and competition sponsored by GFDRR Labs/World Bank)
• AI-Mapped Buildings using Drone Imagery in Zanzibar demo
• How To Segment Buildings on Drone Imagery with Fast.ai & Cloud-Native Geo Data Tools

Telecommunications:

• Led business planning for upgrade to 3G mobile data services by Afghanistan's largest mobile network operator resulting in $65M financing by the International Finance Corporation and service launch in 2013.

Teaching & Research

• Graduate Course Assistant for Persuasion: The Science and Art of Effective Influence, Harvard Kennedy School, 2011
• Undergraduate Teaching Assistant for BIOAP 3190: Animal Physiology Experimentation, Cornell University, 2005-06
• Ropes Course & Team-Building Facilitator for Hoffman Challenge Course, Cornell University, 2005-06
• Research at Comprehensive Rural Health Project, India, 2007. Selected for oral presentation of "Health by the people: the control of tuberculosis using a community-based primary health care approach in Jamkhed, India" at American Public Health Association Annual Meeting 2008 and recipient of International Health section's Student Research Award.

Languages

• English (fluent), Mandarin Chinese (conversational), Spanish (basic)