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Dani Kiyasseh, DPhil

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Founder at Halsted AI

Sunnyvale, California, United States

FoundedHalsted AI

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About

Dani Kiyasseh is the founder and CEO of Halsted AI, a Techstars-backed company he established in 2025 to build vision-based foundation models for understanding surgery. He completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Caltech, where his work on AI systems for tracking surgeon activity from video was featured on the cover of Nature Biomedical Engineering, and holds a DPhil from the University of Oxford and a bachelor's degree in biomedical engineering from Johns Hopkins University. Kiyasseh has published in venues including ICML, NeurIPS, and Nature Communications, and has been named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 and the MIT Innovators Under 35 for the MENA region.

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Experience

  1. Halsted AIFounder & CEOcurrent2025 — presentSunnyvale, California, United States
  2. HealthTech StartupMachine Learning Scientist2024 — 2025Palo Alto, California, United States
  3. Cedars-SinaiAI Research Scientist (Research Faculty)2023 — 2024Los Angeles, California, United States
  4. Vicarious Surgical Inc.Senior AI Engineer2022 — 2023Boston, Massachusetts, United States
  5. CaltechPostdoctoral Scholar (AI for Healthcare)2021 — 2022
  6. University of OxfordDoctoral Student (AI for Healthcare)2018 — 2021
  7. Flatiron HealthMachine Learning Research Intern2021New York, United States
  8. MerckMachine Learning Intern2020Boston, Massachusetts, United States
  9. Mayo ClinicArtificial Intelligence Intern2019Rochester-Austin, Minnesota Area
  10. The Johns Hopkins UniversityTeam Leader, Biomedical Instrumentation Laboratory2015 — 2017Washington DC-Baltimore Area
  11. Ford Motor CompanyMachine Learning Intern2017Dearborn, MI
  12. Imperial College LondonResearch Assistant, Musculoskeletal Laboratory2016London, United Kingdom
  13. TenoSlice Design TeamProduct Developer2014 — 2015The Johns Hopkins University

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Microsoft Office3Microsoft Word2Microsoft Excel2PowerPoint2Public Speaking2Teamwork1Team Leadership2Macroeconomics1Research1

Languages Arabic · English · French · Spanish

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Who is Dani Kiyasseh, DPhil?
Dani Kiyasseh is the founder and CEO of Halsted AI, a Techstars-backed company he established in 2025 to build vision-based foundation models for understanding surgery. He completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Caltech, where his work on AI systems for tracking surgeon activity from video was featured on the cover of Nature Biomedical Engineering, and holds a DPhil from the University of Oxford and a bachelor's degree in biomedical engineering from Johns Hopkins University. Kiyasseh has published in venues including ICML, NeurIPS, and Nature Communications, and has been named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 and the MIT Innovators Under 35 for the MENA region.
Where does Dani Kiyasseh, DPhil work?
Dani Kiyasseh, DPhil is Founder of Halsted AI.
What companies did Dani Kiyasseh, DPhil found?
Dani Kiyasseh, DPhil founded Halsted AI.
Where did Dani Kiyasseh, DPhil go to school?
Dani Kiyasseh, DPhil studied at University of Oxford (Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Machine learning); Caltech (Postdoctoral Scholar, Machine learning); The Johns Hopkins University (Bachelor of Science (BS), Biomedical Engineering).

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