Augmedix, a tech-enabled service that allows doctors to focus on patient care, announced that Saurav Chatterjee has been hired as new Chief Technology Officer. Saurav Chatterjee is well-versed in healthcare-centric artificial intelligence (AI) platforms.
Prior to joining Augmedix, he most recently served as Vice President of Engineering at Lumiata, Inc., where he led the engineering team that built a leading AI platform, focusing specifically on transforming, cleaning, enriching, featurizing and visualizing healthcare data, and on building, deploying and operationalizing machine learning and deep-learning models at scale.
Earlier he was Senior Director at Asurion, where his team conceived of and built AVA, an AI-based conversational bot platform that improved the customer and human agent experience. In addition to building natural-language-processing (NLP) models, his team built a platform that worked across web, short message service (SMS), interactive voice response (IVR), and a dialog engine and knowledge repository to respond to customer requests appropriately.
He has also served as Chief Architect at Visa, where he worked on Visa Checkout. Earlier he was the Chief Architect at Orative Corp., which was acquired by Cisco Systems. Before that he was the Chief Scientist at AlterEgo Networks, which was acquired by Macromedia/Adobe.
“We are honored that Saurav has joined Augmedix,” noted Manny Krakaris, Augmedix Chief Executive Officer. “His vast experience in developing AI/NLP platforms, particularly in the field of healthcare technology, will bolster Augmedix’s position as a leader in remote medical documentation.”
Chatterjee earned a Bachelor’s Degree, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley, and received his PhD in Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University.
Chatterjee is the author of over 50 patents and is a frequent contributor to academic journals. He is also a speaker at numerous AI and computer science conferences.
Augmedix is a tech-enabled service that reclaims the hours physicians spend on the computer entering or retrieving data from electronic health records and refocuses them on what matters most: patient care. It uses wearable technology to connect its clinic with the Augmedix charting service. It is powered by Google Glass and Smartphone devices. It was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
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