Joe Sutherland
Founder, Executive Director SVP, Emory AI Center - Emory University And Emory Healthcare at J.L. Sutherland & Associates
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJoe Sutherland is a senior executive, founder, and bestselling author who builds large-scale AI, data, and cloud transformations that bridge academia, healthcare, and industry. He currently leads Emory’s AI Center and a nine-figure innovation portfolio, scaling impact across 6,000+ staff and launching statewide workforce programs while previously architecting Amazon’s retail media business and Cisco’s global CX cloud transformation. A serial founder and operator, he has led startups to acquisition (Peachtree AI, Prattle) and managed $100M+ P&Ls, combining hands-on product and data science experience with board-level strategy. He’s also an active practitioner—publishing an open-source Python tool for bulk OCR and text extraction—and brings rare public-sector experience from the White House to inform mission-driven technology. Trained at Columbia and WashU, he pairs academic rigor with commercial outcomes and a demonstrated knack for creating new revenue streams from data and AI.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD at Columbia UniversityBachelor's degree, Bachelor's degree at Washington University in St. LouisDoctoral Research - PhD, Doctoral Research - PhD at Princeton University
English, Spanish
Github Skills (12)
ocr10
opencv10
tesseractjs10
tess4j10
python10
image-processing10
tesseract10
read-me9
pypdf9
pdf9
api-design8
cicd7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
jlsutherland/doc2text
Aug 2016 - Dec 2020
Detect text blocks and OCR poorly scanned PDFs in bulk. Python module available via pip.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:53 commits, 11 PRs, 32 pushes in 4 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Joe primarily contributed to improving the `doc2text` project's infrastructure and user experience. They updated the README with badges, installation instructions, and an example. They also implemented an installation script, updated dependencies, and made changes to the API and documentation. Furthermore, the user added support for various file types and languages for improved functionality.
pythonpdfpipcorpusocr
jlsutherland/columbia-phd-startup
Jul 2016 - Sep 2016
Contributions:29 commits, 26 pushes, 2 branches in 1 month
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