Dr. Vikram Sheel Kumar

Co-Founder, Chairman & Chief Medical Officer

Vikram Sheel Kumar is a pioneer in the field of community based chronic disease management. He received a bachelor of science degree with honors in operations research from Columbia University. During his time at Columbia, he invented and patented a software tool to analyze multidimensional neuronal data.

The son of an inventive neurosurgeon Dr. Vijay Sheel Kumar, Vikram invented a privatizing fax machine with his father at the age of 14. In 1999, Vikram joined the MIT Media Laboratory as a research assistant and with his advisor Sandy Pentland invented DiaBetNet^TM that was nominated as one of the top ten designs of the decade by BusinessWorld magazine.

While in the M.D. program at the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Vikram met Vishwananth Anantraman and Tarjei Mikkelsen and together started Dimagi in 2002. Vikram concurrently completed his medical degree and began a residency in Clinical Pathology at the Brigham and Women's Hopsital.

In 2004, Vikram was named the MIT Technology Review's Humanitarian of the Year and one of the world's 100 top innovators. He is a Paul and Daisy Soros New American, a founding Fellow of Media Lab Asia, a member of the advisory board of the Global Emerging Technology Institute and a board director of the Bienmoyo Foundation.

Jonathan Jackson

Co-Founder, President & Chief Executive Officer

Jonathan Jackson is a lifelong entrepreneur, software engineer, and system designer with extensive real-world experience in the design, development and deployment of technology systems. He has built software systems and development teams for a variety of projects in both developed and developing environments.

From 1999 to 2002, Jonathan researched user-centric systems at the MIT Media Lab. In the Context Aware Computer lab, he directed research on an automated assistant that facilitated scheduling and alerts based on pattern recognition and communication over e-mail, SMS, and direct TCP connections.

In 2003 Jonathan was awarded a Department of Homeland Security Fellowship at MIT and the Brigham and Women's hospital, where he developed neural network software that was able to dynamically test multiple learning algorithms and report on the optimal parameters for a given algorithm and dataset.

More recently, he led the technical development as founder and CTO of Infinidex, an award winning contact search management startup.  He also has worked for short durations at Goldman Sachs as a summer trader and at Bechtel in the Remote Sensing Labratory.

Jonathan earned bachelors and masters degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.  Jonathan is a founding board member of the UnaMesa Foundation and a visiting scientist at Brigham and Women's Hospital Decision Systems Group.

Cory Zue

Chief Technology Officer

Cory Zue has expertise in many aspects of software engineering. As a graduate student working at MIT’s Lincoln Laboratory, he developed an automated voice over IP traffic generator. This tool was used to assess the effects of digital security on voice over IP conversation quality. He used this research to develop a model for predicting the cost of encrypting voice in poor-connectivity systems in terms of quality loss.

From 2005 to 2006, Cory worked for Oracle Corporation developing enterprise collaboration software. He designed and implemented an architecture to automatically track changes on any artifact in the system, allowing users to immediately access those documents that were important to them in a highly-efficient manner.

Cory earned his bachelors and masters degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Dr. Vishwanath Anantraman

Co-Founder

Vishwanath is a physician who, after having practiced medicine in rural India, decided to pursue a career in health and medical informatics. He joined the Decision Systems Group at the Brigham and Women's hospital for a post-doctoral fellowship, and subsequently obtained a master's degree in medical informatics from the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology

Vishwanath has been involved in a number of informatics projects in association with faculty at the AI division of MIT's Laboratory of Computer Science, and has consulting experience from a number of large healthcare corporations.

Tarjei Mikkelsen

Co-Founder & Vice President, Research and Development

Tarjei Mikkelsen is an accomplished software engineer who has designed and implemented medical applications in India, South Africa and the United States. He has previously worked at HP's Cambridge Research Laboratory and the MIT Laboratory for Computer Science.

Tarjei is pursuing a Ph.D. in Medical Engineering and Medical Physics through the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology. There his research focuses on comparative genomics and in 2005 he was lead author on a seminal study in Nature on the comparative sequencing of the chimpanzee and human genomes.

Tarjei holds a bachelor's degree in mathematics and a master's degree in biomedical engineering from MIT.

Dan Myung

Senior Engineer

Dan Myung is an engineer with a keen interest in developing expressive, interoperable and portable software systems specifically in the health care realm. Dan holds an ideal that there are social and societal ills that are waiting to be solved through the help of better, accessible software. Prior to joining Dimagi, Dan worked 5 years as lead developer and co-founder of 10Blade, a startup specializing in developing electronic medical records and decision systems for EMS, first responder, and critical care personnel.

At 10Blade, Dan developed alongside Harvard University's Department of Computer Science the world's first low powered wireless pulse oximeter running on a TinyOS based device. This led to new explorations in developing innovative new decision-support systems for the pre-hospital phase of emergency care, as well as provide critical feedback to health informatics standards bodies the need to expand existing standards' documentation of pre-hospital data. For Boston Medical Center, Dan provided 10Blade's electronic point of care charge capture for selected Trauma surgeons, greatly increasing billing revenue and providing a more continous record for further research.

Dan holds an AB in Computer Science from Harvard University.

Clayton Sims

Senior Engineer

Clayton Sims is a keen engineer with a breadth of experience in developing usable software systems. Clayton strongly adheres to the principle that software can do big things only if it is written along side, and tailored for, those who use it. At the Advanced Materials Laboritory division of Sandia National Labs, he led portions of development on multiple software solutions for use in materials science. Working side-by-side with materials engineers, he helped to create CAD/CAM software for a 3D prototyping technology selected as one the top ten materials developments by Chemical Engineering News.

Recently, Clayton has worked with MIT Engineers and Harvard University Economists to create a toolkit for economists to create highly scalable internet based game simulations. He is currently pursuing a Masters Degree in Computer Science and Engineering at MIT's User Interface Design group, developing software systems to enable end-users to generate electronic decision support protocols.

Clayton holds a BS in Computer Science and Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Dr. Neal Lesh

Strategic Director

Neal Lesh is a computer scientist with field experience in applying information technologies to help organizations address poverty in low-income regions. He has published and lectured extensively in data visualization, data mining, and automated planning and logistics. He has developed medical record and analysis systems for Partners in Health, the government of Rwanda, and a large AIDS treatment program in Tanzania, and worked with many other Universities and NGOs. He is coordinating a Harvard-funded research project in South Africa.

Neal holds a PhD in computer science from the University of Washington and a masters degree in global health from the Harvard School of Public Health.

Dr. Vadim Gerasimov

Research Scientist

After completing bachelors and masters degrees in applied mathematics at Moscow State University in 1992 Vadim Gerasimov joined the MIT Media Laboratory in 1994, working on a variety of multidisciplinary projects, gaining an MS in Media Arts and Sciences in 1996 and a Ph.D. in 2003. He is currently a research scientist working in Australia. Vadim, who was a co-developer of the game Tetris at age 16 is now interested in a broad range of research topics that include wireless sensor networks, multiagent systems, and inertial motion tracking systems. His Ph.D. work explored how to make information collected by personal health-monitoring devices fun and engaging, and consequently more useful to the non-specialist. In particular, he developed a novel approach to adding implicit biofeedback to computer games and a robust wireless sensor network platform to develop personal health monitoring devices.

With his diverse technical repertoire and practical experience both as a clever hacker and disciplined software architect, Vadim takes on 'hard problem' consulting for Dimagi.

Dr. Animesh Sharma

Health Informatics Consultant

Animesh Sharma is a healthcare informatics specialist at Dimagi. His educational qualifications, work experience and skill sets cut across fields like clinical medicine, computer science and bioinformatics. Animesh has worked in diverse settings, holding professional positions in academia at premier research institutes in India and as a graduate student in the United States. His research has focused on applying pattern matching and other machine learning techniques to identify regulatory networks at the genomic level. On the industry side, his experience includes appointments at Infosys Technologies Inc., a leading Information Technology Services company in India. While at Infosys, Animesh was instrumental in the development and implementation of the Oracle clinical works software application.

Animesh received an MBBS degree from the prestigious Maulana Azad Medical College, Delhi and a Post Graduate Diploma in Bioinformatics from Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi. He is an enthusiastic computer hacker and an active seeker of knowledge. Animesh is based in New Delhi, India.

Dr. Sharib Khan

Health Informatics Advisor

Sharib Khan is a prolific physician-informatician whose goal is to foresee, innovate, develop and implement integrated information systems that improve the management and delivery of healthcare on a national or global scale. He has consulted to New York State and City health departments on various health care information projects related to syndromic surveillance, electronic medical records (EMR), and evaluation and implementation of PDA based clinical resources and e-prescribing. Sharib has written federally funded research grants and is currently working on two such grants, one on Clinical Trial Informatics and the other on EMRs. He has also won business plan competitions for ideas on large scale public health disease monitoring systems. Sharib combines his academic credentials in clinical medicine and biomedical informatics with real world information needs to design innovative health care technology products.

Sharib received his medical degree from University of Delhi in 2000 and a Masters in Biomedical Informatics from Columbia University. 

Prof. Victor Zue

Strategic Advisor

Victor Zue is a Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT and Director of the Institute's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL). He is also the first holder of the Delta Electronics Chair endowed for senior researchers. Victor's main research interest is in the development of spoken language interfaces to make human/computer interactions easier and more natural, and he has taught many courses and lectured extensively on this subject. Prior to 2001, he headed the Spoken Language Systems Group, which has pioneered the development of many systems that enable a user to interact with computers using multiple spoken languages (English, Japanese, Mandarin, and Spanish). Their work has been covered by several publications internationally including Time and The Economist. A Business Week article in 1997 described him as one of five "trailblazers" in speech interfaces worldwide. He was also featured in an article in the Discover magazine in December 2000.

Outside of MIT, Victor has consulted for many multinational corporations, and he has served on many planning, advisory, and review committees for the US Department of Defense, the National Science Foundation, and the National Academy of Science and Engineering. From 1996-1998, he chaired the Information Science and Technology (ISAT) study group for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency of the U.S. Department of Defense, helping the DoD formulate new directions for information technology research. In 1990, he became a Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America. In 1999, he received the DARPA Sustained Excellence Award. In 2002, he received the Speech Technology Magazine's inaugural Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2004, he was inducted into the National Academy of Engineering.

Prof. Alex (Sandy) Pentland 

Strategic Advisor

Sandy is a pioneer in wearable computers, health systems, smart environments, and technology for developing countries. He is one of the most-cited computer scientists in the world.

Sandy is the founding director of Media Lab Asia, and is a co-founder of the Center for Future Health, the Wearable Computing research community, and the international Digital Nations Consortium. He was formerly the Academic Head of the MIT Media Laboratory, and is the Toshiba Professor of Media Arts and Sciences. He currently directs the Human Design research group at the MIT Media Lab.

Sandy has won numerous international awards in the arts, sciences and engineering. He was chosen by Newsweek as one of the 100 Americans most likely to shape the next century.

Dr. N. Rao Machiraju

Strategic Advisor

Rao is the Chairman of ConceptLabs, a technology group that creates and launches information technology start ups. Previously, Rao worked at Apple Computer for ten years, where he headed various groups including the Learning Lab, one of Apple's three research labs. Rao worked on a number of research and prototype development efforts in information retrieval, case based reasoning, and organizational memory and holds patents and chaired international conferences in informatics. Rao launched and oversaw the first research project of Apple Computer in India for investigating the application of personal digital assistant technology for gathering health data by health workers.

Prior to Joining Apple, Rao was a visiting faculty member at UCLA and adjunct faculty at California State University, Northridge and Chapman College. Rao has served on the founding editorial boards of Journal of Expert Systems and Journal of Telematics and Informatics. Currently he is on the Board of Councilors of NSF's Center on Multi-Media Computing at the University of Southern California. Rao serves on the boards of Magically, Magically Asia, LearnCity.com and Smartifacts.