Augmedix Announces New Chief Technology Officer, Saurav Chatterjee, PhD

Nov 16, 2020 | News, Press Releases

Saurav Chatterjee, PhD, joins Augmedix, the nation’s leading provider of remote medical documentation and live clinical support services, as Chief Technology Officer.

Augmedix today announced that Saurav Chatterjee has been hired by Augmedix as Chief Technology Officer.

Saurav Chatterjee is well-versed in healthcare-centric artificial intelligence (AI) platforms.

Prior to joining Augmedix, he most recently served as Vice President of Engineering at Lumiata, Inc., where he led the engineering team that built a leading AI platform, focusing specifically on transforming, cleaning, enriching, featurizing and visualizing healthcare data, and on building, deploying and operationalizing machine learning and deep-learning models at scale.

Earlier he was Senior Director at Asurion, where his team conceived of and built AVA, an AI-based conversational bot platform that improved the customer and human agent experience. In addition to building natural-language-processing (NLP) models, his team built a platform that worked across web, short message service (SMS), interactive voice response (IVR), and a dialog engine and knowledge repository to respond to customer requests appropriately.

He has also served as Chief Architect at Visa, where he worked on Visa Checkout. Earlier he was the Chief Architect at Orative Corp., which was acquired by Cisco Systems. Before that he was the Chief Scientist at AlterEgo Networks, which was acquired by Macromedia/Adobe.

“We are honored that Saurav has joined Augmedix,” noted Manny Krakaris, Augmedix Chief Executive Officer. “His vast experience in developing AI/NLP platforms, particularly in the field of healthcare technology, will bolster Augmedix’s position as a leader in remote medical documentation.”

Chatterjee earned a Bachelor’s Degree, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley, and received his PhD in Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University.

Chatterjee is the author of over 50 patents and is a frequent contributor to academic journals. He is also a speaker at numerous AI and computer science conferences.

About Augmedix, Inc.
Augmedix, Inc. (Nasdaq: AUGX) provides automated medical documentation and data services to large healthcare systems and physician practices, supporting medical offices, clinics, hospitals, emergency departments, and telemedicine nationwide. The Company’s Ambient Automation Platform converts the natural conversation between physicians and patients into timely and comprehensive medical notes and performs a suite of related data services. These services relieve physicians of administrative burdens to enable more time for patient care. Augmedix’s proprietary platform uses automatic speech recognition, natural language processing, and clinical datasets to capture the ambient visit conversation and generate a structured medical note. The structured medical note data is then used to deliver additional data services. Quality is assured by trained medical documentation specialists. To learn more about Augmedix, visit augmedix.com.

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