Amil Khanzada is a PhD student at the University of Fukui in Japan, pursuing a research thesis in applying marketing and nudge theory to accelerate the collection of AI training data for smartphone-based tools to diagnose respiratory diseases from breathing sounds. Prior, Amil was a student at UC Berkeley and Stanford pursuing an MBA and MSCS in AI. A data guru, Amil has worked as a software developer and consultant both in the Silicon Valley and Tokyo, in the database and cybersecurity fields, prior to starting his international nonprofit AI research organization Virufy in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
