Hello. I like working on impactful problems with motivated people.

In my last role, I served as an executive at Teladoc Health, where I led teams and investments in data, AI, machine learning, growth and client insights across all our products and services. Teladoc Health is the global leader in whole-person virtual care, with products and services in primary care, urgent care, chronic conditions such as diabetes, hypertension, and diabetes-prevention, delivering over 2.3 Billion in revenue (2022). During my 3+ year tenure, my team grew ~20x with offices across the US, and a significant percentage of PhDs and experts in statistics, machine-learning and clinical research.

Over the last two decades, my vision has been to teach machines how to understand us as humans, and as an entrepreneur discovering how to build companies around these technologies that meaningfully change our lives.

I started programming computers in middle school and tinkering with robotics came shortly after. After an undergraduate degree in electrical engineering, I ended up at the MIT Media Lab working on the first generation of wearables. In the mid/late 2000s, my research focused on modeling human voice and conversational dynamics using machine learning. In 2008, I led one of the largest studies at the time, using mobile phones as digital exhaust of our behaviors— to model the diffusion of political opinions, music trends and health behaviors by instrumenting an entire community (an MIT student dorm) for a year. My colleagues & I also won the DARPA Red Balloon challenge— in 9 hours, which was featured on the Colbert Report.

My PhD research led me to start Ginger, where I served as CEO from 2010 to 2018 . We leveraged my research to provide comprehensive high-quality, on-demand emotional health support that spans coaching, self-care and tele-therapy/psychiatry. We were the first to build a medical practice with AI & automation in tele-psychiatry, from the ground up, to deliver an industry leading experience— access in 60 seconds, clinical outcomes that matched standard of care and scalability exceeding brick and mortar mental health. Ginger was a leader in on-demand behavioral health, and offered as an employee health benefit in the US, and internationally. We also created one of the largest mental health data repositories at the time— combining over 600 billion hours of behavior data, 1.5 million symptom assessments, and rich information about care, treatment and medications. Ginger was acquired by Headspace, a leader in the meditation and consumer mental health space.

In 2019, I joined Livongo Health as Chief Data Scientist, motivated by the potential to bring these technologies to chronic conditions like Diabetes. We went public shortly thereafter, becoming the first and at the time largest digital health company listed at NASDAQ. As a public company, Livongo grew over 100% YoY and rapidly expanded it’s portfolio of chronic condition offerings. In 2020, Livongo merged with Teladoc Health in a record $35B+ transaction, one of the largest mergers in healthcare at the time. This transaction is considered the coming of age of digital health.

SELECTED VIDEOS

ACADEMIC RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS

Thin slices of interest
AP Madan
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005

Identifying close friendships in a sensed social network
RO Oloritun, A Madan, A Pentland, I Khayal
Procedia-Social and Behavioral Sciences 79, 18-26, 2013

Sensing the'Health State'of our Society
A Madan, M Cebrian, S Moturu, K Farrahi, AS Pentland
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2011

Mobile sensing technologies and computational methods for collective intelligence
DO Olguín, A Madan, M Cebrian, AS Pentland
Next Generation Data Technologies for Collective Computational Intelligence ..., 2011

Social evolution: Opinions and behaviors in face-to-face networks
AP Madan
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010

Reality mining and personal privacy
A Madan, BN Waber, M Ding, P Kominers, AS Pentland
Proceedings from Engaging Data: International Forum on Management of ..., 2009

Social signaling: Predicting the outcome of job interviews from vocal tone and prosody
V Soman, A Madan
IEEE International Conference on Acoustic, Speech and Signal Processing, 2009

Reality Mining: The End of Personal Privacy
A Madan, B Waber, M Ding, P Kominers, A Pentland
Proceedings of 1st Engaging Data Forum, 2009

GroupMedia: Using wearable devices to understand social context
A Madan, R Caneel, A Pentland, 2004

Change in BMI accurately predicted by social exposure to acquaintances
RO Oloritun, TBMJ Ouarda, S Moturu, A Madan, AS Pentland, I Khayal
PloS one 8 (11), e79238, 2013

Mobile Sensing to Model the Evolution of Political Opinions
A Madan, D Lazer, A Pentland
Technical Report, 2010

A negotiation advisor
A Pentland, J Curhan, R Khilnani, M Martin, N Eagle, R Caneel, A Madan
ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, 2004

Physical analytics to model health behaviors
A Madan
Proceedings of the 2014 workshop on physical analytics, 1-1

Evolution of social encounters in ad-hoc mobile face-to-face interaction networks
RO Oloritun, A Madan, A Pentland, I Khayal
Social Informatics (SocialInformatics), 2012 International Conference on ..., 2012

A Negotiation Analyzer
A Pentland, J Curhan, R Khilnani, M Martin, N Eagle, R Caneel, A Madan, 2004

SELECTED AWARDS

• 2019 - UCSF Healthcare Awards, Best Application of AI

• 2016 - World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer

• 2014 - Top 10 Most Innovative Companies in Healthcare

• 2014 - 100 Most Creative People by FastCompany

• 2012 - Janssen Alzheimers Challenge - Overall winner, Prize $200,000

• 2011 - SXSW Startup Accelerator - Category Winner

• 2011 - Sanofi Aventis/Health Human Services Data Design Diabetes Challenge Diabetes- Overall winner, Prize $130,000.

• 2009 - DARPA Red Balloon Challenge— Winning team out of 4300 competitors across the US, completed 9-day challenge in less than 9 hours. Prize $40,000. Featured on Colbert Report, invited to DARPA HQ in Washington DC.

• 2008 - MIT 100k Entrepreneurship Competition-  Second place in the Mobile track (SocialSense) US $11,500 prize

• 2008 - Venture Capital Investment Competition - Only non-MBA finalist

• 2005-06 Highlands and Islands Enterprises Fellow, Inverness, Scottish Highlands. Founding Fellow, US $75,000 fellowship

• 2004 MIT 1k Entrepreneurship Competition Category Winner (iMetrico) US$ 4000 award

• 2004 MIT Enterprise Forum- Team Award for Most Visionary Research Demonstration

• Pune University, India -Motorola Medal for Academic Excellence, one of over 1000 engineering graduating seniors

• Engineering awards for undergraduate projects, student robot competitions and technical papers at IIT Mumbai and Pune University, India