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Viraj Mehta

Viraj Mehta

Founder & CEO building personalized AI healthcare; Stanford CS MS

San Francisco, California
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Joined May 2025
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Summary

Founder focused on consumer-facing AI healthcare: Viraj co-founded Galen AI to create a personal AI healthcare agent that unifies clinical records and wearable data to deliver personalized, proactive health guidance and support. ycombinator+1
Academic researcher with cross-disciplinary publications: Mehta has an active research profile spanning medical AI and neuroscience, including peer-reviewed and preprint publications on transparency in AI/ML medical devices and neural mechanisms of behavior. stanford+2
Experience in quantitative finance and ML engineering internships: He completed internships at Optiver and IMC Trading and has worked in ML/software engineering roles, giving him applied engineering experience in high-performance and finance environments. workatastartup+1
Public-facing alum with strong interest in trivia and outreach: As a Jeopardy! College Championship contestant and a student featured in Stanford Magazine, Mehta engages publicly about learning, math, and the experience of internet fame. stanfordmag+1

Work

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Projects

Writing

Evaluating transparency in AI/ML model characteristics for FDA-reviewed medical devices

January 1, 2025

A study assessing transparency in model development and performance reporting across FDA-reviewed AI/ML-enabled medical devices using an AI Characteristics Transparency Reporting (ACTR) score.

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Cholinergic modulation of dopamine release drives effortful behavior

January 1, 2025

Preprint describing neural mechanisms by which acetylcholine modulates dopamine release to influence effortful behavior.

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Hobbies

Enjoys trivia and quiz competitions (Jeopardy! College Championship participant). stanfordmag+1

Played college football and has an interest in literature and reading. stanfordmag