Shyamal Patel is the Senior Vice President of Science at ŌURA where he leads an interdisciplinary organization focused on research and development of advanced algorithms that translate sensor data into accurate measures of health and wellbeing. He is passionate about building digital health solutions that enable the transformation of healthcare from a largely subjective, episodic, and reactive model to become more objective, continuous, and proactive. Before ŌURA, Shyamal built and led data science teams in several startups and, most recently, at Pfizer, where his work was focused on the development, validation, and deployment of new digital endpoints across multiple therapeutic areas in regulated clinical trials. Shyamal has a Ph.D. in electrical engineering with a specialization in signal processing and applied machine learning from Northeastern University. He completed his post-doctoral research at Harvard University and lives in Boston.