Sharat Israni, PhD

Sharat Israni is the CTO of BCHSI. A winner of an NIH Director’s Excellence Award, 2024, he also has adjunct and affiliate faculty positions at UCSF and UC Berkeley. Previously, he was the Executive Director of Data Science at Stanford Medicine. Sharat’s team pioneered the use of “Big Data” at both Yahoo! and Intuit, where he served as VP of Data as these companies re-invented their products using AI. 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 IIT/Kanpur. Sharat has authored several patents and refereed publications.