KSG Alumni

KSG alumni have gone on to found AI startups, lead teams at major tech and biotech companies, and advance precision medicine across the industry. Our former members are now at Google DeepMind, Amazon, Meta, AstraZeneca, Datadog, Foundation Medicine, Caris Life Sciences, Elucidate Bio, Mass General Brigham, and OncoLens — and several have founded their own companies, including Savvyn, GenHealth.ai, and SE4BIO.

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Catherine Del Vecchio Fitz, Ph.D., M.S.M.
Founder and CEO — Savvyn

After her time at KSG, Catherine served as SVP of Medical Affairs & Data Insights at Naveris before founding Savvyn, an AI-powered evidence intelligence platform that organizes scientific and clinical data, analyzes policy precedent, and identifies the evidence required to strengthen coverage readiness and accelerate access to new treatments.

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Ethan Siegel
Co-Founder & Chief Product and Technology Officer — GenHealth.ai

After working at KSG on MatchMiner Genomics, Ethan co-founded GenHealth.ai, a healthcare startup that helps provider organizations automate back-office workflows, including prior authorization, referral management, revenue cycle management, and eligibility verification. The company also conducts original research on healthcare cost and clinical trajectory prediction using a transformer-based medical model trained on over 50 million patient records. See their preprint on arXiv.

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Ming "Tommy" Tang, Ph.D.
Director of Bioinformatics — AstraZeneca

At KSG, Tommy led the bioinformatics effort for the NCI Cancer Immune Monitoring and Analysis Centers (CIMACs) and Cancer Immunologic Data Center (CIDC) Network, collaborating with clinical trial investigators to design and conduct biomarker and correlative studies in cancer immunotherapy trials. Tommy is now Director of Bioinformatics at AstraZeneca, where he leads bioinformatics efforts supporting drug development in early oncology. For more information, visit his blog at Diving into Genetics and Genomics, or find him on X and LinkedIn.

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Tiarah Thomas
Program Administrator — Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

Tiarah joined KSG and was promoted to Program Administrator before moving on to a new department at DFCI.

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Matthew Galvin
Associate Director of Operations, Clinical Informatics — Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

After working at KSG as a software architect on MatchMiner Genomics and MatchMiner-AI, Matt moved into a leadership role at DFCI as Associate Director of Operations, Clinical Informatics.

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Andrea Ovalle
Technical Account Manager — Datadog

At KSG, Andrea worked as a Bioinformatics Analyst on MatchMiner Genomics, focusing on clinical trial curation. She is now a Technical Account Manager at Datadog.

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Jason L. Weirather, Ph.D.
Director of Computational Biology — Elucidate Bio

At KSG, Jason led the Computational Biology Group supporting the Center for Immuno-Oncology, focusing on tumor-immune microenvironment analysis from multiplexed immunofluorescence and mass cytometry data. He is now Director of Computational Biology at Elucidate Bio.

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Joyce Yu, M.B.A.
Program Manager — HIRO, Mass General Brigham

Joyce was a Program Manager at KSG and is now a Program Manager at HIRO, Mass General Brigham.

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Pieter Lukasse, M.S.
Founder — SE4BIO

At KSG, Pieter led software engineering for the Profile NGS clinical sequencing project. He went on to found SE4BIO — Software Engineering for Biotech.

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Guruprasad Ananda, Ph.D.
Program Lead, Translational Bioinformatics — Mass General Brigham

At KSG, Guru led the NGS Bioinformatics Group supporting the Profile clinical sequencing project. He is now Program Lead for Translational Bioinformatics at Mass General Brigham.

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Jeremy Easton-Marks
Senior Software Engineer — Akido Labs

After working at KSG on cBioPortal, Jeremy is now a Senior Software Engineer at Akido Labs.

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Pavel Trukhanov
Senior Machine Learning Engineer — Amazon

After working at KSG on MatchMiner Genomics, MatchMiner-AI, and machine learning applications, Pavel is now a Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Amazon.

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Jacob Lurye
Software Engineer — Google DeepMind

After working at KSG on the Cancer Immunologic Data Commons (CIDC), Jacob is now a Software Engineer at Google DeepMind.

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Rachel Beth Evans, Ph.D.
Senior Scientist, Clinical Development — Foundation Medicine

Rachel is currently a Senior Scientist in Clinical Development at Foundation Medicine.

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Eric Marriott
Co-Founder & CTO — GenHealth.ai

After working at KSG on MatchMiner Genomics, Eric co-founded GenHealth.ai alongside fellow KSG alumnus Ethan Siegel.

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Harry Klein, Ph.D.
Senior Program Manager, Precision Oncology — OncoLens

After working on MatchMiner-AI and patient trial matching efforts at Dana-Farber, Harry is continuing patient trial matching efforts at OncoLens. There, he manages the clinical QA process for AI-generated patient data and leads project management efforts for precision oncology.

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Priti Kumari, M.S.
Director, Scientific Data Management — Caris Life Sciences

Priti was Associate Director and Senior Bioinformatics Team Lead at KSG, where she led development of cBioPortal @ DFCI and ImmunoProfile, and contributed to MatchMiner Genomics, AACR GENIE, and the Cancer Immunologic Data Commons (CIDC). At Caris Life Sciences, she leads enterprise data products and platforms, overseeing molecular, clinical, and AI-enabled data solutions that support research, biopharma partnerships, and operational efficiency.

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Ersin Ciftci
Retired — Paradise, CA

After working for 4.5 years at Meta as a Software Engineer, Ersin left in December 2025 and is living a retired life in Paradise, CA.