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 PDFs and executable computational artifacts, enabling research to be explored, tested, and extended interactively.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 efforts in real-world evidence analytics and healthcare AI systems.Earlier in my career, I served as an inventor at Microsoft and IBM Research, where I became an IBM Master Inventor and later chaired an invention development team, mentoring inventors and ranking patent disclosures. My patents span human-computer interaction, machine learning, health systems, privacy, and commerce.In healthcare, my research has focused on fairness 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. These projects reflect my broader commitment to building technically rigorous and ethically grounded AI systems.I have received recognition including the IBM Research Honor Roll and the IBM Outstanding Technical Innovation Award, as well as an IEEE award.During my Ph.D., I developed expertise in mobile and fixed-arm robotics, focusing on human-robot collaboration and reinforcement learning. This foundation in intelligent physical systems informs my current work at DBbun: transforming static knowledge into executable systems.In addition to my scientific and entrepreneurial work, I am the author of A Future Without: 50 Short Stories of What May Not Be, a speculative exploration of technological fragility and systemic disappearance. The book is available at the Cambridge Public Library.