Summary
Ouwen Huang is a founder and technical leader with nine years of experience building AI-driven imaging platforms at the intersection of healthcare and agriculture. He co-founded FarmShots (YC) and led its acquisition by Syngenta, then founded Gradient Health to create a modern Human Body Atlas for ML and medical education, backed by NCI funding and $5M+ in venture support. Trained as a computer scientist and MD/PhD candidate at Duke, he blends rigorous research—NIH fellowships, publications, and a provisional patent in reversible image de-identification—with product execution and FDA-aware medical imaging work for partners like RapidAI. Comfortable shipping scalable, data-intensive systems (terabytes of satellite and clinical imagery), he teaches applied ML and data engineering at Duke and retains an inventor’s curiosity that led to an NSF-funded precision health tool during his undergrad.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science at Duke University
MD PhD Biomedical/Medical Engineering, MD PhD Biomedical/Medical Engineering at Duke University School of Medicine
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Biomedical/Medical Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Biomedical/Medical Engineering at Duke University Pratt School of Engineering
English, Chinese