Speakers

As CEO of Rhino Federated Computing, Dr. Ittai Dayan is transforming the way data is used for creating and deploying Artificial Intelligence (AI) solutions in regulated industries. The Rhino Federated Computing Platform (Rhino FCP) is used around the world by hospitals, payers, biopharma and financial services organizations to break data silos without compromising data privacy and security, by leveraging edge-computing and federated learning technologies, in conjunction with cutting-edge privacy preservation methods.

Dr. Dayan is a pioneer of bringing privacy preservation technologies into regulated industries. In 2020, he led an international consortium of hospitals, universities and institutions that published its results in Nature Medicine. This was the most prominent study at the time, utilizing federated learning to train a healthcare AI solution on diverse data across institutions.

Previously, Dr. Dayan served as the Executive Director at Mass General Brigham’s Center for Data Science, taking AI software to market and into the clinical workflow. Prior to that, he held managerial roles at Boston Consulting Group, focused on the use of AI and analytics to transform the healthcare industry.

Dr. Dayan graduated from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. He earned his MD and his Bachelor of Science degrees from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He serves on the Editorial Board of Nature Digital Medicine, a leading publisher of peer-reviewed scientific studies. His own research has been published in journals including those from Nature group, IEEE’s Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, and at the MICCAI conference.