Dani Kiyasseh — SPARQNOW

At-a-Glance

Founder of Halsted AI, a Techstars-backed company focused on AI in healthcare.
Named to Forbes 30 Under 30 MENA and MIT "Innovators Under 35" in the MENA region.
Led research at Caltech, culminating in a publication featured on the front cover of Nature Biomedical Engineering.
Holds a DPhil (PhD) from the University of Oxford, where he developed deep learning models for clinical data.
Completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Caltech, developing AI systems to track surgeon activity from videos.
Graduated from Johns Hopkins University with a Bachelor's degree in biomedical engineering.

Biography

Dani Kiyasseh, DPhil, is the founder of Halsted AI, a Techstars-backed company dedicated to building large-scale vision-based foundation models to enhance the understanding of surgery. With 8 years of experience at the intersection of AI and healthcare, he has been recognized for his contributions, including being named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 MENA and the MIT "Innovators Under 35" in the MENA region.