Amber is the co-founder and CEO of a digital health startup, basys.ai, with more than a decade of experience in healthcare and Artificial Intelligence. He leads sales and fundraising for the startup. His startup, basys, helps payers and care providers reduce costs by designing better workflows. More specifically, basys helps improve prior-auth and utilization management through our proprietary disease-tracking platform.
Amber graduated from Harvard University with an MS degree in the Health Data Science program and has a bachelor's degree in Computer Science. At Harvard, he was a Cheng's fellow and received the "Roslyn and Lisle Payne" scholarship.
In his last entrepreneurial stint as founder of kydots.ai, Amber led business development to large enterprise clients in the financial management and human capital domains. The team led by Amber filed two patents and published a research paper for their proprietary platform.
Amber believes in the power of community and collective leadership. He relishes his experience mentoring startups at Harvard, MIT, and the wider Boston ecosystem. He previously led joined Harvard Business Club as a Co-Director, where he helped Harvard founders with strategy and fundraising.
As someone interested in applied machine learning, Amber has led a few professional and academic initiatives in the domain of Artificial Intelligence. For instance, he has co-instructed the course "Collaborative Data Science in Medicine - HST.953" at MIT. Amber has also published in top machine learning conferences like NeurIPS and ACL and top journals like Lancet and Springer.
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Boston Business Journal covers the launch of basys.ai: https://www.bizjournals.com/boston/inno/stories/news/2022/10/04/ai-startup-from-harvard-innovation-labs-launches.html
Nasdaq publishes Amber's story and motivation for starting up: https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/amber-nigam%3A-improving-metabolic-health-for-billions-through-ai
Amber selected as one of Cheng's fellows at Harvard Kennedy School: https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/newsplus/transforming-public-health-through-social-innovation/
Amber's interview published by Harvard: https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/features/need-help-managing-diabetes-these-students-made-an-app-for-that/
MIT News publishes Amber: https://news.mit.edu/2020/what-is-covid-19-data-tsunami-telling-policymakers-0701
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Authored Articles
State Of The Pharma Industry: Present And Future: https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbesbusinesscouncil/2024/04/08/state-of-the-pharma-industry-present-and-future/
How Prior Authorization Reforms Can Help Value-Based Care: https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbesbusinesscouncil/2024/03/05/how-prior-authorization-reforms-can-help-value-based-care/?sh=3a203d983fce
Disruption And Change: Healthcare Trends And Predictions For 2024: https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbesbusinesscouncil/2024/01/22/disruption-and-change-healthcare-trends-and-predictions-for-2024/?sh=7a6045917e05
Generative AI: The Next Frontier Of Healthcare: https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbesbusinesscouncil/2023/12/04/generative-ai-the-next-frontier-of-healthcare/?sh=7c604c9b6d68
5 Considerations For Health Plan Leaders Using AI-Enabled Prior Authorization And Utilization Management: https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbesbusinesscouncil/2023/10/30/5-considerations-for-health-plan-leaders-using-ai-enabled-prior-authorization-and-utilization-management/?sh=65105f0e6f9e