Ayasdi on nprs technation discussing the nfls head. Extracting insights from the shape of complex data using. Pek lum is a data scientist and systems biologist who has extensive experience with datadriven drug discovery, software development, and venture capital. Ayasdi is growing rapidly, and is funded by toptier venture and private equity firms. Before founding auransa, pek was an early employee and vice president of product and chief data scientist for ayasdi, where she created early business verticals and helped grow the company from a few people to several dozen employees.
Topological data analysis for discovery in preclinical spinal cord injury and traumatic brain injury jessica l. Using the ayasdi iris platform, which employs topological data analysis tda methods, we reconstructed the relationship structure of e. Palo alto, ca, oct 22, 20 marketwired via comtex ayasdi. The ayasdi software uses tda as a framework for a large repertoire of statistical and machine learning methods. Exploring user capability data with topological data analysis. Curing cancer with data visualization dzone big data. She is the chief architect of the science behind auransas technology, combining her deep understanding of genomics and her vast experience in applying data science in the pharmaceutical industry.
Pek yee lum, chief executive officer at auransa, inc. Ayasdi offers an enterprisegrade artificial intelligence platform that lets you create intelligent business applications and make fundamental discoveries with big. Amy tovar3, tomoo inoue4, karenamanda irvine5, john c. Using ayasdi as a clinical decision support tool, the team at ucsf were able to crunch though all this data to predict patient outcomes following mild traumatic brain injury.
View pek lum s profile on linkedin, the worlds largest professional community. After more than a decade in the life sciences industry, pek has the passion to help find a cure to cancer and other diseases in her lifetime, and believes that ayasdi. Our team has developed and commercialized novel drugs, diagnostics and deep analytics software. Extracting insights from the shape of complex data using topology.
Both python versions and r versions are freely available. Pek lum, chief data scientist and vp of solutions at ayasdi and a customer on stage at bioit or visit ayasdi. Topological data analysis for discovery in preclinical spinal. Ayasdi on nprs technation discussing the nfls head health. Ayasdi core is a trending cloudbased bi software, it is designed to support small, medium and large size business. Pek lum, chief data scientist and vp of solutions at ayasdi, which participated in the research i mentioned earlier that won a prize with the icahn school of medicine. Au taken from aurum gold combined with ansa opening or opportunity. In order to show the implementation of tda, we apply it to three very different data sets.
Finding the needle in the data haystack the news watch. As the wall street journal noted this past march, two and a half years ago, dr. Pek lum, phd pek lum, phd cofounder and ceo pek lum, phd pek lum has more than 20 years of genomics and drug discovery experience. Pek yee lum, eithon cadag, johan grahnen, joshua lewis, harlan sexton dimension grouping and reduction for model generation, testing. Ayasdis insight discovery platform uses topological data analysis tda. Apr 29, 2014 as bioit world approaches this week, we are sharing a preshow guest blog series from industry experts on trends you can expect to hear about at the event. Aug 05, 20 pek lum, a biologist and now ayasdis chief data scientist, joined the palo alto, calif. At ayasdi, we let the data speak for itself, for example, we are able to group patients through targeted visualizations, such as biomarker electronic medical record, clinical, and demographic data, and we optimize the shape of these visualizations to interrogate the data with statistical analysis. Other affiliations pek yee lum is affiliated with auransa, inc.
Pek lum, chief data scientist and vp of solutions and schaeffer will report to gurjeet singh, cofounder and ceo of ayasdi. Startup the news watch selected news, commentaries. Ayasdi names sap executive as worldwide vp of sales marketwatch. She described ayasdis strength as the application of tda topological data analysis as a framework for machine learning algorithms. Ayasdi is transforming how the world uses data to solve complex problems. It will be almost four years since i joined ayasdi on a mission. Sinai, and his colleague pek lum, the chief data scientist and vp of solutions at ayasdi. Pek s experience led her to become the chief data scientist for ayasdi, the company that created the software that was critical to her discovery. Kanani will help build and lead ayasdi s customer success group. Ayasdi cure, based on ayasdi s awardwinning machine learning platform, merges hundreds of algorithms with topological data analysis tda and obviates the need for queries. Topological data analysis of escherichia coli o157. This allows the medical community to optimize therapeutic administration through visualization by segmenting targeted patients in a better way. The company ayasdi is based on the mapper algorithm. Pek lum has more than 20 years of genomics and drug discovery experience.
Pek lum, a biologist who had spent more than a decade in pharmaceuticals, saw a stunning discovery when she met ayasdi s cofounders for the first time. Applications of tda to the understanding of disease and drug discovery. Ayasdi offers a machine intelligence platform that helps organizations gain transformative advantage from big data. Founded in 2008 after a decade of research at stanford, darpa, and nsf, ayasdi is pioneering a new approach for enterprises to automatically discover and operationalize insights from their data.
Pl and tp are both employees at ayasdi, inc, and have received stock options in this company whose software. Pek lum, a biologist who had spent more than a decade in pharmaceuticals, saw a stunning discovery when she met ayasdi. Machine learning applications with the power to transform business when you see what others dont, you can do what others cant. Ayasdi launches ayasdi cure application to catalyze next. Using ayasdi s software, the hospital is working to improve outcome prediction for trauma patients leading to better care and better prediction of ptsd onset. Ayasdi has partnerships with several major system integrators, and a key sales partnership with deloitte. Pek lum is the chief data scientist and vp of solutions at ayasdi.
Pek lum, ayasdis vice president of solutions and chief data scientist. Ayasdi seeks out the underlying shapes of big data bioit world. Computer reseller news may 5, 2015 big data in healthcare. While the bay area is still nursing a tough loss to seattle this past weekend in the nfc read more. Desantis abstract deciphering microbial communities and their role in earths biosphere is crucial for addressing challenges in human health, agriculture, bioremediation and other natural processes. Pek lum, our moderator, is the founder and ceo of capellabio. While at the 2014 bio it world conference, i had the opportunity to interview pek lum, ayasdis chief data scientist. How data is transforming clinical trials and healthcare. Machine learning with ayasdi machine learning the ayasdi difference coders trained individuals handful of algorithms 100s of algorithms available noisy segmentation clear segmentation the goal of all these methods is enabling people to leverage their data more effectively. To work with big data, researchers are increasingly turning to topology, graph theory and other forms of esoteric math. The inside story of our name and logo design our logo was given its name, auransa rosalinus, by our founder pek lum. Symphony ayasdi has its roots as a darpafunded project, and has evolved to support a wide array of public sector ai applications including program management, predictive maintenance, intelligence, and healthcare. Pek was trained in molecular genetics and cell biology.
I will discuss how topological data analysis tda has been applied to various. When it comes to bio it, data is the key that drives progress. In the above video, pek lum, vice president of solutions and chief data scientist at ayasdi, and mikael flensborg. Pek lum, chief data scientist and vp of solutions, ayasdi. Industries analytics, artificial intelligence, big data, data visualization, machine learning headquarters regions san francisco bay. Pek started off her career at rosetta inpharmatics. Ayasdiai deploys the worlds most advanced machine learning to help you see new and valuable insights in your data. Alwayson ondemand top 100 winner for ondemand software big data alwayson june 4, 2014 mary meekers state of the web. Applications of tda to the understanding of disease and. We heard about this firsthand in a case study from joel dudley, director of biomedical informatics for the icahn school of medicine at mt. By complete coincidence, they happened to be looking at a breast cancer dataset that she had produced while at merck twelve years before. The ucla plasma simulation group has an extensive history in developing and using pic software. View pek lums profile on linkedin, the worlds largest professional community.
He is responsible for all sales and business development functions in the company and. With ayasdiai, you can track actual events as they unfold and take new shape. By eliminating the need to formulate initial hypothesis and write queries, ayasdis approach allows data scientists and domain experts to reveal breakthroughs in minutes. Topological data analysis for discovery in preclinical. At ayasdi, we let the data speak for itself, for example, we are able to group patients through targeted visualizations, such as biomarker electronic medical record. In this singlecentre, crosssectional observational study in the uk, we assessed volunteers with mildtosevere asthma and healthy nonatopic controls using clinical and physiological assessment and immunological sampling of blood, induced sputum, endobronchial biopsy, and bronchoalveolar lavage for flow cytometry and multiplexelectrochemiluminescence assays. Our databeatdata science summit takes place tomorrow and thursday in redwood city, and there are only 20 seats remaining. Pek lum leads ayasdi s products and solutions team. After more than a decade in the life sciences industry, pek has the passion to help find a cure to cancer and other diseases in her lifetime, and believes that ayasdi s technology may help solve these difficult problems. Aug 28, 2014 in the above video, pek lum, vice president of solutions and chief data scientist at ayasdi, and mikael flensborg, director of global partner relations at clc bio, talk about how to make big data into small data so that its accessible to physicians and can be leveraged to tackle complex issues like cancer. The current activities mostly center around software for studying high frequency plasma phenomenon for which electron kinetics is important.
Ayasdi names sap executive as worldwide vp of sales. Peks experience led her to become the chief data scientist for ayasdi, the company that created the software that was critical to her discovery. We supercharge your systems of today and build a bridge to your systems of tomorrow. The algorithm is very simple bin data into overlapping bins, cluster each bin. The company was founded by pek yee lum and viwat visuthikraisee and is headquartered in palo alto, ca. An interview with ayasdis pek lum applied clinical trials. Aw and xz declare that they have a patent ep 1982191 issued assay for carboxypeptidase a3, and a patent uspa 12161409 pending assay for carboxypeptidase a3.
Pek lum, a biologist and now ayasdi s chief data scientist, joined the palo alto, calif. Pek lum, chief data scientist and vp of solutions at ayasdi and a customer on stage at bioit or visit ayasdi s booth. Fox foundation recently partnered with ayasdi to analyze data from a cell phone app distributed to people with parkinsons disease. See the complete profile on linkedin and discover pek s connections and. Speakers archive page 2 of 6 the machine learning conference. To learn more about ayasdi cure and the partnerships announced today, join dr. Accessed 15 september 2017 carlsson g 2009 topology and data. Ayasdi today announced that shane paladin joined the company as the vp of sales. Applications of tda to the understanding of disease and drug.
Pek lum joined ayasdi in september 2010 to start and lead the life sciences sector where she is developing the vision and business strategy. Ayasdi ayasdi has also taken on some very novel sources of data. She is the chief architect of the science behind auransas technology. Pdf extracting insights from the shape of complex data using. Accelerating drug discovery, advancing precision medicine by pek lum april 29, 2014.
Ayasdis insight discovery platform uses topological data analysis tda combined with an ensemble of machine learning. Programs from companies such as tellagence and ayasdi create. Ayasdi named cool vendor in life sciences by gartner. Ayasdis software is based on topological analysis, which visualizes relationships between data points as 2d shapes made up of interconnected nodes. Programs from companies such as tellagence and ayasdi create visual aids. After more than a decade in the life sciences industry, pek has the passion to help find a cure to cancer and other diseases in her lifetime, and believes that ayasdis technology may help solve these difficult problems. We analyzed two disparate datasets of gene expression profiling data on breast tumors, 22 years of voting behavior of the members of the us house of representatives, and characteristics of nba basketball players via their performance statistics. Unlike many other ai in risk players, ayasdi delivers proof points and practical use cases. Pek is a biologist who has been in data, software and pharmaceuticals for the past 17 years. Apr 29, 2014 to learn more about ayasdi cure and the partnerships announced today, join dr.
Pek lum, chief data scientist and vp of solutions at ayasdi, which participated in the research i mentioned earlier that won a prize with the icahn school of. Ayasdi further strengthens executive bench, adds vice. Bringing tda math world into real data worldayasdi software. Software received september 2012 accepted 6 december 2012 published 7 february 20 correspondence and requests for materials shouldbeaddressedto g. Tackling mild traumatic brain injury with ge and the nfl by pek lum january 23, 2014. Dramatically cutting the time, cost, and effort of drug development. Sequencing, cloud computing, and analytics meet around.