The company ayasdi is based on the mapper algorithm. Finding the needle in the data haystack the news watch. By complete coincidence, they happened to be looking at a breast cancer dataset that she had produced while at merck twelve years before. Programs from companies such as tellagence and ayasdi create. Topological data analysis for discovery in preclinical. An interview with ayasdis pek lum applied clinical trials. Ayasdi is transforming how the world uses data to solve complex problems. Curing cancer with data visualization dzone big data. Kanani will help build and lead ayasdi s customer success group.
Programs from companies such as tellagence and ayasdi create visual aids. View pek lum s profile on linkedin, the worlds largest professional community. Applications of tda to the understanding of disease and drug. Peks experience led her to become the chief data scientist for ayasdi, the company that created the software that was critical to her discovery.
Pdf extracting insights from the shape of complex data using. 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. The inside story of our name and logo design our logo was given its name, auransa rosalinus, by our founder pek lum. When it comes to bio it, data is the key that drives progress. 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. Topological data analysis for discovery in preclinical spinal. 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.
Accelerating drug discovery, advancing precision medicine by pek lum april 29, 2014. Pek yee lum, chief executive officer at auransa, inc. Speakers archive page 2 of 6 the machine learning conference. Pek lum, a biologist who had spent more than a decade in pharmaceuticals, saw a stunning discovery when she met ayasdi. The company was founded by pek yee lum and viwat visuthikraisee and is headquartered in palo alto, ca. Pek lum is the chief data scientist and vp of solutions at ayasdi. Pek lum, chief data scientist and vp of solutions at ayasdi and a customer on stage at bioit or visit ayasdi s booth. Ayasdi names sap executive as worldwide vp of sales.
Pek was trained in molecular genetics and cell biology. Topological data analysis for discovery in preclinical spinal cord injury and traumatic brain injury jessica l. Tackling mild traumatic brain injury with ge and the nfl by pek lum january 23, 2014. Startup the news watch selected news, commentaries. 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.
The current activities mostly center around software for studying high frequency plasma phenomenon for which electron kinetics is important. Pek lum, ayasdis vice president of solutions and chief data scientist. Pek lum, chief data scientist and vp of solutions, ayasdi. Pek lum, chief data scientist and vp of solutions at ayasdi and a customer on stage at bioit or visit ayasdi. She described ayasdis strength as the application of tda topological data analysis as a framework for machine learning algorithms. 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. Ayasdi seeks out the underlying shapes of big data bioit world. It will be almost four years since i joined ayasdi on a mission. 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. Pek lum has more than 20 years of genomics and drug discovery experience. Ayasdi on nprs technation discussing the nfls head health.
Ayasdis software is based on topological analysis, which visualizes relationships between data points as 2d shapes made up of interconnected nodes. Ayasdi on nprs technation discussing the nfls head. While the bay area is still nursing a tough loss to seattle this past weekend in the nfc read more. Using the ayasdi iris platform, which employs topological data analysis tda methods, we reconstructed the relationship structure of e. Pek yee lum, eithon cadag, johan grahnen, joshua lewis, harlan sexton dimension grouping and reduction for model generation, testing. Pek lum joined ayasdi in september 2010 to start and lead the life sciences sector where she is developing the vision and business strategy. Apr 29, 2014 to learn more about ayasdi cure and the partnerships announced today, join dr. Ayasdi has partnerships with several major system integrators, and a key sales partnership with deloitte. With ayasdiai, you can track actual events as they unfold and take new shape.
See the complete profile on linkedin and discover pek s connections and. Both python versions and r versions are freely available. Ayasdi launches ayasdi cure application to catalyze next. Dramatically cutting the time, cost, and effort of drug development. Industries analytics, artificial intelligence, big data, data visualization, machine learning headquarters regions san francisco bay. Ayasdi names sap executive as worldwide vp of sales marketwatch. Ayasdi offers an enterprisegrade artificial intelligence platform that lets you create intelligent business applications and make fundamental discoveries with big.
View pek lums profile on linkedin, the worlds largest professional community. 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. Applications of tda to the understanding of disease and. The ucla plasma simulation group has an extensive history in developing and using pic software. 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. Our team has developed and commercialized novel drugs, diagnostics and deep analytics software. Extracting insights from the shape of complex data using. 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. As the wall street journal noted this past march, two and a half years ago, dr. Fox foundation recently partnered with ayasdi to analyze data from a cell phone app distributed to people with parkinsons disease. Ayasdi is growing rapidly, and is funded by toptier venture and private equity firms.
The algorithm is very simple bin data into overlapping bins, cluster each bin. Pek lum, chief data scientist and vp of solutions and schaeffer will report to gurjeet singh, cofounder and ceo of ayasdi. 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. This allows the medical community to optimize therapeutic administration through visualization by segmenting targeted patients in a better way. 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. Amy tovar3, tomoo inoue4, karenamanda irvine5, john c.
Pek is a biologist who has been in data, software and pharmaceuticals for the past 17 years. Pl and tp are both employees at ayasdi, inc, and have received stock options in this company whose software. Extracting insights from the shape of complex data using topology. To work with big data, researchers are increasingly turning to topology, graph theory and other forms of esoteric math. 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. While at the 2014 bio it world conference, i had the opportunity to interview pek lum, ayasdis chief data scientist. Bringing tda math world into real data worldayasdi software. Pek lum, our moderator, is the founder and ceo of capellabio. 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. We supercharge your systems of today and build a bridge to your systems of tomorrow. Ayasdi ayasdi has also taken on some very novel sources of data.
Topological data analysis of escherichia coli o157. I will discuss how topological data analysis tda has been applied to various. The ayasdi software uses tda as a framework for a large repertoire of statistical and machine learning methods. 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.
Ayasdi further strengthens executive bench, adds vice. Pek started off her career at rosetta inpharmatics. Other affiliations pek yee lum is affiliated with auransa, inc. How data is transforming clinical trials and healthcare. 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. Alwayson ondemand top 100 winner for ondemand software big data alwayson june 4, 2014 mary meekers state of the web. Au taken from aurum gold combined with ansa opening or opportunity. 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. By eliminating the need to formulate initial hypothesis and write queries, ayasdis approach allows data scientists and domain experts to reveal breakthroughs in minutes.
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. He is responsible for all sales and business development functions in the company and. Ayasdis insight discovery platform uses topological data analysis tda. 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. 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. Sinai, and his colleague pek lum, the chief data scientist and vp of solutions at ayasdi. Ayasdi named cool vendor in life sciences by gartner. 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.
Software received september 2012 accepted 6 december 2012 published 7 february 20 correspondence and requests for materials shouldbeaddressedto g. Pek lum is a data scientist and systems biologist who has extensive experience with datadriven drug discovery, software development, and venture capital. Unlike many other ai in risk players, ayasdi delivers proof points and practical use cases. 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. Ayasdi today announced that shane paladin joined the company as the vp of sales. Machine learning applications with the power to transform business when you see what others dont, you can do what others cant. She is the chief architect of the science behind auransas technology.
Exploring user capability data with topological data analysis. Pek lum, a biologist and now ayasdi s chief data scientist, joined the palo alto, calif. 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. Accessed 15 september 2017 carlsson g 2009 topology and data.
Sequencing, cloud computing, and analytics meet around. Palo alto, ca, oct 22, 20 marketwired via comtex ayasdi. Pek lum leads ayasdi s products and solutions team. 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. In order to show the implementation of tda, we apply it to three very different data sets. Ayasdiai deploys the worlds most advanced machine learning to help you see new and valuable insights in your data. 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. Ayasdis insight discovery platform uses topological data analysis tda combined with an ensemble of machine learning.
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