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Zachary Ziegler

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Cofounder & CTO at OpenEvidence
📍 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Zachary Ziegler is the Cofounder and CTO of OpenEvidence, an AI-powered medical information platform used by over 40% of US physicians. With a PhD from Harvard in machine learning and a background in physics from Cornell, he leads the companys mission to make medical knowledge more accessible and useful for clinicians.

Zachary has followed a non-linear career path, starting in physics before teaching himself programming and transitioning into machine learning and natural language processing. He values working at the intersection of different disciplines to solve complex problems.

He was awarded both the prestigious Barry Goldwater Scholarship and the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship.

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Experience
11 Years
Current Role
Cofounder & CTO
Job Level
Leadership
Location
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Personality Overview

How Zachary shows up

Demanding
ROI Conscious
Hard To Convince

They focus on objectivity in a pitch and pay little attention to bells and whistles. They respond well to confident salespeople. They don’t always try to control the conversation but neither do they like yielding it fully.

Priorities

Topics Zachary cares about

AI in Healthcare
As co-founder of OpenEvidence, his entire professional focus is on creating AI tools to provide clinical decision support for physicians at the point of care.
Large Language Models
His PhD work at Harvard focused on the mathematical underpinnings of LLMs, and he now applies this expertise to solve problems in the medical field.
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Career

Work history

9-2021
Cofounder & CTO
OpenEvidence
12-2019 - 9-2021
Head of Artificial Intelligence
IMAX AI
7-2018
PHD Student
Harvard University
6-2017 - 7-2018
Computer Vision Research Scientist
FeatureX
4-2016 - 5-2017
Ultrafast Fiber Laser Researcher
Cornell University
In the press

Media appearances

OpenEvidence Co‑founder & CTO Zack Ziegler – The Heart of Healthcare Podcast. Featured in Spotify
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Bridging the Gap to Medical Knowledge – OpenEvidence (Medical Innovation Podcast). Featured in Medical Innovation Podcast
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Education
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD
Harvard University
2013 - 2017
Bachelor of Science
Cornell University
Social presence
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Behavioral profile

DISC profile (public)

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Calculativeness (C)

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