Tobi Olatunji is a physician turned Machine Learning Scientist focused on Clinical Natural Language Processing (NLP). He founded Intron, Africa’s first speech-powered medical record, accelerating the transition to digitized care for clinicians of all typing speeds. Intron provides technology infrastructure and financing that eliminates technology adoption barriers. Over the past decade, he has worked as a Clinical NLP Scientist at Health AI, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon, the world’s largest employer; Enlitic Inc, a Radiology AI startup in San Francisco; Cambia Health Solutions, a 100+-year-old health insurance provider in the pacific northwest; and consulted for various startups and healthcare institutions in the US and Africa. His research cuts across accented speech recognition, algorithmic bias, neural and ontology-augmented information retrieval, negation & uncertainty detection in radiology reports; Radiogenomic multi-modal models combining imaging (pathology and radiology), genomics (RNA, DNA), unstructured text, and cancer biomarkers to create learnable patient representations. He has published at Neurips, MIDL, EMNLP, and other machine learning conferences/workshops.
Tobi holds a Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS) degree from the College of Medicine, University of Ibadan; a Master of Science in Medical Informatics from the University of San Francisco, a Certificate in Healthcare Management from Yale School of Management and an MSc in Computer Science (c) at the Georgia Institute of Technology.