ZIAD OBERMEYER

CO-FOUNDER
founding Chief Medical Officer

Ziad Obermeyer is Associate Professor and Blue Cross of California Distinguished Professor at UC Berkeley, where he does research and teaches at the intersection of machine learning and health.

He has been named an Emerging Leader by the National Academy of Medicine, and received an Early Independence Award from the Office of the Director of the National Institutes of Health.

His work has been published in a wide range of journals, including Science, Nature Medicine, New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA, and ICML, and has won awards from professional societies in medicine and economics.

He is a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and continues to practice emergency medicine in underserved communities. Previously, he was a consultant at McKinsey & Co., and an Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School.

SENDHIL MULLAINATHAN

CO-FOUNDER
Founding Chief Data Officer

Sendhil Mullainathan is the Roman Family University Professor of Computation and Behavioral Science at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. His current research uses machine learning to understand complex problems in human behavior, social policy, and especially medicine, where computational techniques have the potential to uncover biomedical insights from large-scale health data. In past work he has combined insights from economics and behavioral science with causal inference tools—lab, field, and natural experiments—to study social problems such as discrimination and poverty. Prior to joining Booth, Mullainathan was the Robert C. Waggoner Professor of Economics at Harvard University, where he taught courses about machine learning and big data.

He began his academic career at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Mullainathan is a recipient of the MacArthur “Genius Grant,” has been designated a “Young Global Leader” by the World Economic Forum, was labeled a “Top 100 Thinker” by Foreign Policy Magazine, and was named to the “Smart List: 50 people who will change the world” by Wired Magazine (UK).

Emily Bembeneck

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

Emily leads operations and strategy for the Center for Applied Artificial Intelligence at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, building partnerships with industry, academia, and policymakers.

Previously, she was in ed-tech and digital learning, building partnerships between industry and higher education.

Her background is in digital storytelling, having earned her PhD at the University of Michigan, focusing on narrative and digital media.

Senthil Nachimuthu

Chief Medical Officer

Senthil Nachimuthu is Chief Medical Officer at Nightingale and product manager for clinical data science.

Previously, Senthil worked at Truveta and 3M Healthcare in product management and research leadership roles in medical informatics, analytics, interoperability, and healthcare standards. He has led interoperability efforts at several hospitals, contributed to HL7 and SNOMED standards, and served as an advisor to the US Congress.

Senthil also works as an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Biomedical Informatics and as a researcher in infectious disease epidemiology at the University of Utah School of Medicine and the Salt Lake City VA Medical Center.

Senthil earned his medical degree from Stanley Medical College, India, and a PhD in Biomedical Informatics from the University of Utah. He is an inducted Fellow of the American Medical Informatics Association.

JOSH RISLEY

Chief Technology Officer

Josh Risley is the creator of Nightingale OS, our secure data repository and research computing platform. He leads software engineering, information security, and IT for Nightingale.

Previously, Josh was CIO and VP of Analytics and Engineering for Rush Street Gaming. Before that, he served as an FBI Special Agent, and before that, he was Director of Gaming Revenue Management for Caesars Entertainment.

Josh earned an Economics degree from Saint Louis University.

Nick Foster

Data Integration Analyst

Nick Foster is a data integration analyst at Nightingale. Previously, he was a teaching assistant with the Northwestern Data Analytics and Visualization Boot Camp after graduating from the Metis Data Science Boot Camp. Before that, he worked with college students in a ministry setting for many years. Nick graduated with a BS in Physics from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.