— Experience —
Founder & CTO 2024 – present
Vera AI Vera AI
AI lie detection for telecom scam protection. Bootstrapped startup building an MVP with a hired team, targeting pre-seed fundraising.
Founder & AI Consultant 2017 – present
South River AI South River AI
Independent AI consulting across real estate, automotive, e-commerce, and energy sectors.
  • Shell Predictive models Real-time chemical reaction prediction using tabular ML.
  • Volvo Cars Computer vision Driver attention & fatigue detection for ADAS systems.
  • NVM LLM agent Automated property descriptions & search experience via LLM.
  • Soyaka NLP Chinese-language NLP for social commerce analytics.
  • OpenMined Privacy ML Privacy-preserving ML research and tooling contributions.
Principal AI Architect 2021–2023
Array Insights (MIT)
MIT startup for patient advocacy. Led a privacy-preserving ML platform, clinical trial advisory, and language model strategy.

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