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Entrepreneurship in Health and AI: Perspectives from a co-founder, professor, and academic health tech hub director

Tanzeem Choudhury, Professor of Computing and Information Sciences at Cornell Tech, Director of The Health Tech Hub at Cornell Tech’s Jacobs Institute

1400 Wegmans Hall

Entrepreneurship in tech has a long standing history of innovation, explosive growth, and disruption, The era of AI promises even more groundbreaking technology. But disruption within the healthcare industry using latest advances in tech has been tempered by the realities of the industry, risk and liabilities, and differences in attitudes towards technology adoption. During this interactive seminar, I will share some highlights of my journey as an academic  researcher working in health technology for over two decades (especially mobile technology and AI for health tracking and interventions), as an entrepreneur, and as an academic program director working to remove the gap between research and real-world translation and accelerating impact through entrepreneurship. If you are interested in health tech entrepreneurship, please come with your questions and be ready to share your experiences.

Bio. Tanzeem Choudhury is a Professor of Computing and Information Sciences at Cornell Tech and the director of The Health Tech Hub at Cornell Tech’s Jacobs Institute. Tanzeem also holds the Roger and Joelle Burnell Chair in Integrated Health and Technology. From 2021-2023, she served as the Senior Vice President of Digital Health at Optum Labs and is a co-founder of HealthRhythms Inc, a company whose mission is to add the layer of behavioral health into all of healthcare. This year, she co-founded Dapple Health, which is creating lended human+AI care teams to reimagine actions and connections in healthcare. At Cornell Tech, Tanzeem directs the People-Aware Computing group, which focuses on innovating the future of technology-assisted well-being. Tanzeem received her PhD from the Media Laboratory at MIT and her undergraduate degree in Electrical Engineering from University of Rochester. She has been awarded the MIT Technology Review TR35 award, NSF CAREER award, TED Fellowship, Kavli Fellowship, Ubicomp 10yr Impact Award (2016, 2022), and has been elected an ACM Fellow and inducted into the ACM SIGCHI Academy.