Founding Team

  • Andy Wang, CEO of Prescient Devices

    Andy Wang, Ph.D.

    CEO

    Technologist and entrepreneur with 20+ years of experience. Andy helped grow his previous startup (GTI IoT Technology) from a two-person founding team to over 150 employees, and deployed over 500K IoT devices for industrial applications. He received a Ph.D. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

  • Pablo Acosta, VP Engineering of Prescient Devices

    Pablo Acosta-Serafini, Ph.D.

    VP Engineering

    Senior technologist with extensive experience in high-speed mixed-signal IC design, signal processing algorithms, EDA tool development, and authoring industry standards. He is the principal inventor in four patents. He received a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

  • Ashish Yadav, Director of Software Development

    Ashish Yadav

    Director of Software Development

    With extensive experience in distributed IoT systems, applications, Ashish leads the full-stack development of Prescient Designer, our edge data solutions platform. He received an MS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of California, Merced.

  • Annie Xu, Director of Digital Communications

    Annie Xu

    Director of Customer Experience

    Specializing in visual communication with a focus in UX design, Annie combines her academic and industry knowledge with branding and marketing strategies for Prescient. Annie graduated with an MSc in Digital Humanities from University College London.

  • Kartik Chaudhari, Machine Learning Engineer

    Kartik Chaudhari

    Machine Learning Engineer

    Technologist with a focus on machine learning, data operations, and sensor fusion. His focus lies in optimizing and enhancing the visibility of systems. Kartik graduated with an MS focused on machine learning and mobility at Carnegie Mellon University.

Advising Team

  • Charles Sodini, Ph.D., Board Member

    Charles Sodini, Ph.D.

    Board Member

    LeBel Professor of Electrical Engineering at MIT, co-founder of SMaL Camera Technologies and founder of Medical Electronic Device Realization Center (MEDRC), and has served on a variety of industry boards.

  • Saqib Syed, Board Member

    Saqib Syed

    Board Member

    Entrepreneur and software executive with 25+ years of experience. Previously, Saqib served as co-founder and CEO of ArrayIQ, and led Products as an executive at CA Technologies and BMC Software.

  • Kush Gulati, Ph.D., Advisor

    Kush Gulati, Ph.D.

    Advisor

    Co-founder, president and CEO of Omni Design Technologies. Previously, Kush was the co-founder, president and CEO of Cambridge Analog Technologies, helped co-found Engim and was an executive at Bitwave Semiconductor. He received his Ph.D. from MIT.

  • Douglas Levin, Advisor

    Douglas Levin

    Advisor

    Business leader, technologist and serial entrepreneur. He is the sole founder and first CEO of Black Duck Software. Previously, Doug held senior management positions at Microsoft Corporation. He is an XIR at HBS, mentor for MIT Sandbox Innovation Fund and MIT Venture Mentoring Service.

  • Bill Philbin, Advisor

    Bill Philbin

    Advisor

    30 years of high technology experience. He is the former SVP, Global CTO for Hewlett Packard Hybrid IT Group. Before joining HPE, he had several technology executive assignments at Netapp, IBM, and at several pre-IPO and public held software companies.

  • Karim Lakhani, Ph.D., Advisor

    Karim Lakhani, Ph.D.

    Advisor

    Charles E. Wilson Professor of Business Administration and Dorothy and Michael Hintze Fellow at Harvard Business School. He is founder and co-director of the Laboratory for Innovation Science at Harvard. He is the co-author of “Competing in the Age of AI” (2020).

  • Ruth Taylor, Advisor

    Ruth Taylor

    Advisor

    Business leader, technologist, and entrepreneur with 25+ years of experience. She held senior business leadership roles at IBM, and was a venture capitalist investor with Southeast Interactive Technologies, and is an officer of several Boards of Directors.

  • Chee We Ng, Advisor

    Chee We Ng

    Advisor

    Founding partner of Oak Seed Ventures. Previously, he was a managing partner of CRCM Ventures, venture partner at Redpoint, Cisco Systems and McKinsey. He is focused on frontier technology, with several successfully completed investments. He holds an MBA from Harvard Business School.

  • Burt Hurlock, Advisor

    Burt Hurlock

    Advisor

    CEO with 25+ years of experience, 50+ acquisitions in the US, Europe and Asia across four industries. Expertise in services, tech-enabled services, turnarounds, thought leadership, data strategies and digital transformation.