Uri Kartoun PhD

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Welcome to my professional portal. I am Uri Kartoun, PhD, the Founder of DBbun, an executable publication layer that transforms static scientific papers, patents, and technical documents into runnable simulators and synthetic datasets. Based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, my work focuses on bridging the gap between readable knowledge and executable computational artifacts, enabling research to be explored, tested, reproduced, and extended interactively.I was selected as a 2026 Phase 1 Winner of the NIH OligoTox Open Data Challenge and as a finalist in the 2026 DARPA Triage Challenge.My work builds on more than 15 years of experience in machine learning, causal inference, predictive modeling, and robotics. I have collaborated with institutions such as the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cleveland Clinic, MIT, and Mass General Brigham, leading and contributing to efforts in real-world evidence analytics and healthcare AI systems.Earlier in my career, I served as an inventor at Microsoft and IBM Research. At IBM, I became an IBM Master Inventor and later chaired an invention development team, mentoring inventors and evaluating and ranking patent disclosures. My patents span human-computer interaction, machine learning, healthcare systems, privacy, cybersecurity, and commerce.In healthcare, my research has focused on fairness and reliability in high-stakes AI systems. I contributed to the development of MELD-Plus, an enhanced risk model for liver disease that was later shown to outperform five leading risk-assessment models.During my PhD, I developed expertise in mobile and fixed-arm robotics, with a focus on human-robot collaboration and reinforcement learning. This foundation in intelligent physical systems continues to inform my work at DBbun: transforming static knowledge into interactive and executable systems.