Meet The Team
Dr. Joseph Carson, Ph.D.
Chief Technology Officer
A Professor in the Department of Physics & Astronomy at the College of Charleston. His primary field of expertise is in the development of novel imaging software and hardware, for astronomy and medical imaging applications. He has served as Principal Investigator for multiple grants from the National Science Foundation, NASA, and the National Institutes of Health. Dr. Carson is a Fulbright scholar, has published over 100 scientific papers, and was recognized both by TIME Magazine and CNN for his work in the imaging discovery of extrasolar planets
Tal Almog
President
A technology executive and entrepreneur with vast international experience, forming and leading teams to develop, implement, and support complex, business critical technology solutions to top Fortune 500 companies. Mr. Almog was recently Chief Operating Officer for Maintenancenet, a cloud-based software company acquired by Cisco. As a senior director at Cisco he led the Core Data Operations organization, including the data science team responsible for improving and automating Cisco Operations using AI. Mr. Almog is the recipient of the San Diego Magazine’s 2015 “Top Technology Executive” award
Dr. Dennis Carson, M.D
Chief Medical Advisor
A professor of Medicine at UCSD, the Director Emeritus of the Moores Cancer Center, and the former Director of the Shenzhen University Cancer Center (China) which he helped establish. He is an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) and is one of the world’s most respected cancer researchers. He developed the drug 2CDA (“Leustatin”) for treatment of hairy cell leukemia. Dr. Carson is founder of six biotech companies. He has published 450 scientific papers and is an inventor on more than 60 U.S. and international patents
Benjamin Carson, Esq.
Head of Legal, Regulatory, and Partnerships
A California business attorney, specializing in legal issues facing high-tech start-up companies, including: corporate law, intellectual property, employee contracts, and financing. In additional to legal and regulatory, He drives partnerships and collaborations with NGOs and universities both domestically and internationally.
Julia Wakefield
Biomedical Engineer
With an R&D background in device manufacturability, product design, and usability, she is involved in hardware development with a focus on CAD design, rapid prototyping, and document control.
Isabelle Mehochko
Biomedical Engineer
With a background in therapeutic ultrasound research and computational bioinformatics, she contributes to both hardware development, including rapid prototyping and CAD design, as well as data and image processing.
Stanley McAfee
Lead Software Engineer
With a background in observational astrophysics and data statistics, he handles data calibration, implementation of adaptive mesh grid algorithms, and coding of machine learning modules for improved depth extraction.
Kevin Gainey
Lead Hardware Engineer
With a background in opto-electronic hardware calibration, hardware assembly, cad-based design, image analysis coding, and the maintenance and repair of a wide variety of analytical scientific instrumentation, he has worked as a leader in Pensievision’s instrument hardware development since 2018.
Bailey Williamson
Research Associate
With a background in statistical astrophysics and machine learning, he carries out statistical analysis of CervImage data and leads the in-lab collection of experimental data. Bailey also assists in the development of our image analysis software, particularly on image registration and feature extraction.
ADVISORS
Dr. Marleen Temmerman
Former Director of the Department of Reproductive Health and Research (RHR) at the World Health Organization (WHO), Geneva, the main United Nations instrument for research in women’s health. Dr. Temmerman is currently Chair of the Department of OB-GYN and Director of the Centre of Excellence in Women, Child and Adolescent Health at the Aga Khan University Hospital Nairobi and a full Professor of OB-GYN at Ghent University in Belgium. She has over 500 publications and books in the area of women’s health, and several awards and honors. In 2007, she was elected as Senator in the Belgian Parliament where she was member of the Committee on Social Affairs, and Chair of the Committee on Foreign Affairs
Dr. Stephen Eikenberry
Professor of Applied Optics in the College of Optics and Photonics (CREOL) and Professor of Physics in the Physics Department at the University of Central Florida. He is one of the world’s leading experts in the development of novel infrared and optical instrumentation for largescale telescopes. He co-founded the CREOL Astrophotonics program and was a recipient of the Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics and the Gruber Prize for Cosmology
Dr. Cheryl Saenz
A gynecologic oncologist specializing in gynecologic cancer care. She is a professor in the Department of Reproductive Medicine at UCSD, a member of the Gynecologic Oncology Group (GOG), the largest multi-institutional organization conducting research into the treatment and prevention of gynecologic cancers, and a member of the board of directors and the chair of the Education Committee for the Foundation for Women’s Cancer. Dr. Saenz is a recipient of the National Cancer Institute Cancer Clinical Investigator Leadership Award
Raymond W. McDaniel, Jr
Chief Executive Officer and President at Moody's Corporation, a $50B financial services company. McDaniel also serves on the board of directors of the Council for Economic Education, and the board of directors of the global publishing company John Wiley & Sons. Mr. McDaniel is also an investor in Pensievision
Lori R. Buchbinder
Principal of Buchbinder & Warren, a NYC real estate firm with a portfolio of a hundred buildings and commercial properties. Ms Buchbinder has extensive background and expertise in various aspects of business and management. Prior to her current position she practiced law for twenty-four years, most recent at Liz Claiborne Inc. as Vice President Deputy General Counsel, managing the company’s extensive trademark portfolio. Ms. Buchbinder is an investor in Pensievision
Dr. Sadik Esener
Professor of Medicine at OHSU and Director of the cancer research center. Previously he was Professor of Nano Engineering and Electrical & Computer Engineering at UCSD. Dr. Esener is the founder of 5 companies, led several DARPA sponsored Industry consortiums, and is Co-director of the Center for Nano-medicine and Engineering, Institute of Engineering
Gioia Messinger
Serial imaging technology entrepreneur. Founded LinkedObjects, Avaak (acquired by NETGEAR), MedSmart, Inc. (acquired by Kaiser Permanente), and SUMMIT Design Technologies, the firm that helped develop the first ingestible wireless Endoscopic Capsule (Pill-Cam) . Ms. Messinger is a mentor for the SD and L.A chapters of the Founder Institute; an Entrepreneur in Residence at the Center for Commercialization of Advanced Technology (CCAT); a visiting lecturer at the UCSD Rady School of Management, and serves on the Board of Directors of IQinVision and Fashioning Change
Dr. Ashok Krishnamoorthy
Chairman & CEO of Axalume, an optical interconnect startup. Formerly an Oracle Chief Technologist, Photonics, a Distinguished Engineer & Director at Sun Microsystems, President and CTO of AraLight, a Bell Labs spinout, and founding member of the Optical Data Networks research dept. at Bell Labs. He was awarded the 2005 ICO international prize in optics. His honors include the IEEE Distinguished Lecturer award. He received his PhD from UCSD, an MS from USC, and a BS with honors from the California Institute of Technology. Dr. Krishnamoorthy has contributed 300 technical publications, 8 book chapters, delivered over 100 talks at global conferences, and holds 200 patents
Dr. Yu-Tsueng Liu
Associate Professor of Medicine at UCSD and Director of the Biomarker Laboratory in the Moores Cancer Center. He is the Principal Investigator of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant that has supported the initial research that served as the basis for the 3D imaging system development
Dr. Qian Zhang
Assistant Professor of Systems Engineering at College of Charleston. She is an expert in human factors within the field of medical device development, and her current research focuses on human-robot collaboration. She advises Pensievision engineers and clinical leadership on enhancing the user experience, performing risk analysis to prevent human errors, and utilizing physiological measurements to assess the functionality of medical device systems. She completed her PhD in Industrial and Systems Engineering at State University of New York at Buffalo and her postdoctoral work at Houston Methodist Hospital.