Mohammad Noshad

Yeah, thanks Brian.

Thanks for having me.

So when I did my PhD, this was back in 2013.

At the time, it wasn't called AI, it was mostly machine learning people were referring to.

And it was one of the fascinating areas for me personally, looking at how these systems can basically predict different outcomes and work to learn different behaviors of these systems.

So

That was motivation for me and my co-founder and brother Morteza when he basically did his PhD at University of Michigan Ann Arbor.

And after my PhD, I moved to Harvard.

I was working on a lot of exciting projects over there with an amazing team.

And after a few years there in 2016, I met a program director at Department of Energy and they had a program called SBIR.

And, you know, I thought it would be interesting to build a system based on that.

So that was the story of kind of like my first company.

That's how I left academia and decided to start first company.

which was interesting kind of like technology we were building.

And after that, it was second company, which was even more exciting using lasers in space to connect satellites in Leo orbit, which basically it's same technology that's being used with SpaceX, Amazon, Kuiper to establish the backbone of connectivity across

all of those satellites in space.

And then after the exit of the second company, this was 2022, me and Morteza had a friend who passed away because of a surgical site infection.

So that was a moment for us to learn about kind of like this problem in healthcare.

And we thought with our training in AI,

there is a great opportunity to build the next company in the healthcare space.