Sharat Israni, PhD

Sharat Israni is the Executive Director of BCHSI. Previously, he was the Executive Director of Data Science in the Dean’s Office at Stanford Medicine. Sharat pioneered the use of “Big Data.” He served as Vice President of Data at both Yahoo! and Intuit, as these companies re-invented their products using Data Sciences. Previously, Sharat led Digital Media systems for broadcast and interactive TV at Silicon Graphics; and led data systems teams at IBM and HP. Sharat has a PhD in Industrial Engineering (Computer Science minor) and an MSIE (Systems) from the University of Wisconsin/Madison; and a B.Tech. in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur. He has taught in the Graduate School of Business at Santa Clara University. Sharat has authored several patents and refereed publications.