Yash Gad

Yash Gad is a data science and technology leader with over 15 years of experience in healthcare, marketing, artificial intelligence, and higher education. Throughout his career, his focus has been on putting data science and analytics approaches in the hands of everyone. Yash earned his Bachelors from Johns Hopkins University and Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and turned his graduate work in artificial intelligence and neural networks into his first startup, Simvivo. Through Simvivo, Yash developed novel in silico models for government and healthcare clients, and brought modern data science approaches to clinical trials, education, and materials research. He also consulted with teams at Houston Community College to bring research opportunities in computational sciences to students. In 2013, Yash joined Real Chemistry, and was the Technology Lead for MDigitalLife, the groundbreaking offering that merged unique proprietary and public datasets with new analytics approaches to yield unique insights about the behaviors of doctors, patients, and other healthcare stakeholders. In 2018, Yash left Real Chemistry to start Ringer Sciences, an AI and analytics firm focused on broadening access to advanced analytics. Ringer Sciences has differentiated itself by pioneering Audience Architecture, which looks to merge digital media, proprietary datasets, and public datasets to provide unique actionable insights about the behaviors of targeted stakeholders or customers. Ringer Sciences now has broadened to serve enterprise clients and higher education institutions who want to start an AI journey or leverage Ringer’s AI suite to power their marketing and communications efforts. Yash has published research and book chapters in artificial intelligence, neuroscience, oncology, biochemistry, materials science and social media analytics. He is currently based out of Austin, Texas.