2024
Four Years of scite
Reflections on my first real startup journey.I wrote this on my last day at scite to organize a bunch of stories I've collected in this time.
Hi, I’m Ashish.
I love technology, design, and systems, and spend most of my time these days plotting to get people to care about one another.
I’ve worn multiple hats, initially as a research fellow at the National Cancer Institute and later in engineering and product roles across fintech, cybersecurity, and scientific publishing.
I joined scite.ai as the first engineering hire in 2020 and eventually served as CTO. For 4 years, I worked on improving how people discover, evaluate, and do better research.
I later led Engineering and Product for Portal Stargaze, an applied metascience toolkit for sourcing and understanding biotech innovation.
Today, I'm at a research lab in NYC (Datalab) that trains state of the art document intelligence models, and am advising on a collective intelligence funding program at ARIA.
For my other writing around systems of science, see shishyko!
Writing
Selected essays
2023
Slow Travel in France
Photos and stories from 5 weeks in France.With love from Paris, Lyon, and Annecy.
2020
Federated Learning
Reflections from NeurIPS and related readingsI was particularly fascinated by privacy preserving technologies, and reflected on innovations around federated learning during my trip to NeurIPS in Vancouver.
2019
Software That Can Paint
Early generative artI've always loved art and photography; this essay is a consolidation of some of my notes on varieties of generative art from a number of international artists.
Suggestions
Reading
Bookshelf
Books I enjoy(ed).Publications
2022
Title detection: a novel approach to automatically finding retractions and other editorial notices in the scholarly literature
arXiv preprint2022
Identifying Reliable KOLs and Research With the Next Generation of Citations
The MSL Journal2021
scite: A Smart Citation Index That Displays the Context of Citations and Classifies Their Intent Using Deep Learning
Quantitative Science Studies2020
Measuring the quality of scientific references in Wikipedia: an analysis of more than 115M citations to over 800,000 scientific articles
The FEBS Journal2016
Tremelimumab in combination with ablation in patients with advanced hepatocellular carcinoma
Journal of HepatologyExperience
2025 — Present
Advanced Research and Invention Agency
External Technical AdvisorHelping launch a £50M funding program under Collective Flourishing.
2025 — Present
Datalab
Member of the Technical StaffEngineering, product, GTM for document intelligence, in part to enable collective intelligence.
2024 — 2025
Portal Stargaze
Head of Engineering & ProductSet overall technical and product vision and about as hands on as I can get in all the things (designing, building, and launching Stargaze Network, getting our data and technology infrastructure in place, making sense of our strategy, working with tech transfer, etc.)
2020 — 2024
scite.ai
CTO (2023)First engineering hire. Designed and built ingestion system to process millions of full text articles. Develop and maintain relationships with publishers, run product studies, craft new business partnerships, and engineer pipelines and products.
2019 — 2020
Upside Business Travel
EngineeringSoftware engineering for a corporate travel platform; mostly in React, NodeJS, Postgres, Golang.
2017 — Present
Consulting — shishyko!
Engineering and DesignI've helped various early stage startups get off the ground, from local businesses that need a landing page to software-heavy products and anything in between.
2017 — 2019
Capital One
EngineeringSoftware engineering for a new B2B Commercial Payments Platform; mostly in Java, Angular, React, Postgres.
2015 — 2016
National Cancer Institute
CRTA FellowClinical trials and mouse models for liver cancer (no more!).
Contact
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