Ashish Makani

Ashish is an engineer by training, with an undergraduate degree in engineering and a master’s in computer engineering from Purdue University. Over the last 7–8 years, his experiences with family encounters with patients and doctors, and exposure to life-changing books have inspired him to transition towards a career at the intersection of technology, machine learning, and medicine—specifically focused on cancer care.
He is deeply passionate about leveraging technology, particularly machine learning (ML), artificial intelligence (AI), and emerging tools like large language models (LLMs). Ashish envisions building innovative tools that empower patients to actively engage in their care and enable clinicians to operate at the top of their expertise. By optimizing workflows, he aims to help clinicians focus on high-value, clinically significant tasks while delegating administrative and other non-clinical responsibilities to AI systems.