Blog posts

The views and opinions expressed on this blog are my own.

2026

The Evaluation Stack for Health AI

6 minute read

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Why medical knowledge benchmarks aren’t enough for real-world health assistants, and what an evaluation stack should look like as Health AI moves from static vignettes to conversational, action-taking systems.

Launching Amazon Health AI for Prime Members

2 minute read

Published:

After months of work, Health AI is launching on Amazon.com and in the Amazon app, giving customers a personal AI health assistant to understand their health information, explore care options, and connect directly to care.

Launching Amazon One Medical Health AI

1 minute read

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Today we launched Amazon One Medical, an agentic Health AI assistant providing 24/7 health guidance, appointment booking, lab reading, and medication management.

2025

From Stochastic Parrots to Software as a Doctor

8 minute read

Published:

How LLMs are evolving from stochastic parrots into regulated medical devices — exploring the FDA frameworks, regulatory pathways, and business implications of software as a doctor.

AWS re:Invent 2025

less than 1 minute read

Published:

Attended AWS re:Invent 2025 in Las Vegas.

Amazon Machine Learning Conference (AMLC 2025)

4 minute read

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Attended Amazon’s internal Machine Learning Conference (AMLC 2025) and gave a talk on LLM trustworthiness in medical product question answering.

Launching Buy For Me on the Amazon Shopping App

1 minute read

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Buy For Me, my first agentic AI system at Amazon, is now live for US customers — an AI agent that browses, selects, and purchases products from third-party brand websites on behalf of customers.

2019

PhDone

less than 1 minute read

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Successfully defended my PhD thesis at MIT in the Harvard–MIT Program in Health Sciences and Technology.

2018

2017

Tim Cook at the MIT Media Lab

less than 1 minute read

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Tim Cook, Apple’s CEO, visited our research group (Affective Computing group) at the MIT Media Lab, where our team presented our research on AI and emotion recognition.

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