Amber NigamFounder

United States - Greater Boston

I am the co-founder and CEO of a digital health startup, basys.ai, with more than a decade of experience in healthcare and Artificial Intelligence. I lead sales and fundraising for the startup. At basys, we help payers and care providers reduce costs by designing better workflows. More specifically, we help improve prior-auth and utilization management through our proprietary disease-tracking platform.

I graduated from Harvard University with an MS degree in the Health Data Science program and I have a bachelor's degree in Computer Science. At Harvard, I was a Cheng's fellow and received the "Roslyn and Lisle Payne" scholarship.

In my last entrepreneurial stint as co-founder and CTO at kydots.ai, I led sales and engineering teams to deliver the SaaS product to enterprise clients in the financial management and human capital domains. We filed two patents and published a research paper for our proprietary platform.

I believe in the power of community and collective leadership. I relish my experience mentoring startups at Harvard, MIT, and the wider Boston ecosystem. I previously led joined Harvard Business Club as a Co-Director, where I helped Harvard founders with strategy and fundraising.

As someone interested in applied machine learning, I have led a few professional and academic initiatives in the domain of Artificial Intelligence. For instance, I have co-instructed the course "Collaborative Data Science in Medicine - HST.953" at MIT. I have also published in top machine learning conferences like NeurIPS and ACL and top journals like Lancet and Springer.