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Sina Shahandeh , PhD

Chief AI Officer · CTO · Deep Tech Builder

Scaling Agentic AI, Multimodal Foundation Models & HPC/AI Infrastructure

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About

I build AI companies from zero to exit.

As a two-time CTO, I've raised $8M+ and led teams through a $770M acquisition. Today I'm focused on generative AI in healthcare, building multimodal vision models for medical imaging, deploying agentic AI in production, and navigating FDA/regulatory pathways to clinical deployment.

My PhD in high-performance computing (parallel systems, optimization) gives me deep architectural intuition for modern AI infrastructure. I've also governed AI strategy at the board level, including oversight of Canada's $375M national research and AI computing initiative.

I'm a hands-on technologist who speaks fluently to boards, investors, and engineers alike.

$8M+ Raised in Funding
$770M Exit/Acquisition
CTO Experience
$375M Board Oversight

Experience

Startups & Venture Architecture

2022 – Present · Co-founding and hands-on executive leadership

RADiCAIT

CTO/CAIO
Boston, MA Aug 2024 – Present

A next-generation Generative AI platform in radiology generating in silico PET scans.

  • Imaging Foundation Models: Architected and shipped a proprietary GenAI imaging engine for cancer diagnosis on GPU clusters.
  • Venture Velocity: Launched in TechStars Boston, raised $1.5M pre-seed funding, among the top 20 companies at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025.
  • Regulatory Frameworks: Establishing the company's AI Governance framework for FDA approval and clinical deployment.

Gradient-Ascent

Principal AI Architect
Toronto (Remote) Mar 2024 – Aug 2024

Strategic advisor to Fortune 1000 executives on Enterprise AI Transformation and Agentic Architectures.

  • Productionizing Agentic AI: Designed and deployed autonomous AI Agents for complex enterprise workflows.
  • GenAI Strategy & Governance: Advised C-suite stakeholders on LLM adoption roadmaps and AI safety guardrails.

Ovom Care GmbH

Founding CTO
Berlin, Germany Feb 2023 – Mar 2024

Founding CTO at Merantix, Europe's premier AI Venture Studio. Led the 0-to-1 build of an AI-first fertility care platform.

  • AI-Native EMR: Built a proprietary Electronic Medical Record system for high-dimensional fertility data.
  • Fundraising: Partnered to raise $4M in VC capital and $1.5M in grants, achieving a $20M valuation within 12 months.
  • Clinical AI: Developed predictive AI models ensuring GDPR and medical device compliance.

Markets Replica - PlanWithFlow

Founder
Feb 2022 – Jan 2023

Exploring startup ideas to simulate large-scale complex systems. Launched a web application for financial planning using GPT-4 as an agentic assistant — the earliest experiments in agentic AI.

Scale-Up Leadership & Exit Track Record

Influitive

Director, Data Science
Toronto Jan 2016 – Aug 2016

Executive team member providing thought leadership on Data Science and marketing technology strategy. Filed a patent within 5 months.

Terapeak Acquired by eBay

Lead Data Scientist
Sep 2014 – Oct 2015

Led team architecting TB-scale data products including search, classification, and pattern recognition tools.

Divergent Rays Computing Inc.

Founder
Oct 2013 – Sep 2014

Founded an image analysis software company, built a team of four, and secured admission to the Digital Media Zone (DMZ), Canada's largest incubator.

Board Memberships & Advisory

New Digital Research Infrastructure Organization of Canada

Board Director · 2020 – 2022

Oversaw a $375M initiative by the Ministry of Innovation, Science and Economic Development to architect Canada's national-scale digital research infrastructure and supercomputing capabilities.

NSERC Program on Dependable IoT

Board Director · 2018 – 2020

Advised on strategic direction for dependable Internet of Things applications and reliability standards.

Education

PhD

Computational Materials Science

The University of British Columbia, Vancouver 2007 – 2013

Developed high-performance computing (HPC) parallel codes and large-scale analytical tools for complex material systems. Applied first-principles modeling to solve high-dimensional optimization problems.

MSc

Materials Science and Engineering

Sharif University of Technology, Tehran 2004 – 2006

Finite element modeling and numerical optimization.

Writings

Thoughts on AI, technology, startups, and building the future.

Get in Touch

I'm always interested in connecting with fellow technologists, founders, and anyone passionate about AI and deep tech.