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    Dave Luo

     

     

     

    Dawn view of glacier at the peak of Mt. Kilimanjaro, Tanzania

     

     

  • Briefly

     

    MD/MBA-trained data scientist. Worked and working on all things data for healthcare, telecommunications, disaster risk management, pandemic tracking, and climate change.

  • In Detail

    Work

    • Data Scientist at the Pandemic Tracking Collective (partnered with Rockefeller Foundation's Pandemic Prevention Institute), 2021-Present
    • 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), 2015
    • Co-Founder & CEO at Earth2Globe (saffron export and ecommerce), 2012-15
    • Co-Founder & CEO at Jeevan (virtual medical consultation), 2014
    • Partner at man goes mobile (mobile health), 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 3G rollout in Afghanistan's largest mobile network resulting in $65M of debt financing from International Finance Corporation and 3G 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)
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