Summary
Sambit Panda is a scientist-turned-founder with eight years of experience building clinically-focused AI systems and statistical tools. As Cofounder & CEO of Leah Health he’s developing a multi-agent decision-support platform that gives emergency physicians quantified uncertainty on recommendations for high-stakes, after-hours care. He continues research at the MATRIX AI Consortium on giving LLMs performance guarantees in clinical settings, drawing on prior PhD work at Johns Hopkins where he created and packaged hypothesis-testing algorithms (KMERF, Nonparametric MANOVA)—one of which is now in SciPy. His background spans theory, applied trauma datasets (~400,000 patient records), and practical tooling, and he’s applied these methods to early cancer detection and trauma policy. Outside tech, he runs a scholarship trust in his home village in Odisha, reflecting a commitment to impact beyond academia and startups.
8 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Bachelor of Science - BS, Biomedical/Medical Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS, Bachelor of Science - BS, Biomedical/Medical Engineering at North Carolina State University
Johns Hopkins University
Bachelor of Science - BS, Biomedical/Medical Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS, Biomedical/Medical Engineering at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
English, Spanish, Hindi