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Cory Kidd

Louisiana School for Math, Science, and the Performing Arts (LSMSA)

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Georgia Institute of Technology

CEO at Catalia Health

San Francisco, California, United States

I started Catalia Health in 2014 to provide the patient engagement technology that I have been developing for two decade in order to benefit people managing chronic conditions.

Catalia Health is a patient care management company that is building a platform that combines artificial intelligence, psychology, and medical best practices to deliver everyday care to patients who are managing chronic conditions.  These uniquely tailored conversations are delivered primarily through our Mabu personal healthcare companion, an interactive robot.  Catalia Health's customers are pharmaceutical manufacturers and providers.
            

    
    

    
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Catalia Health

Founder and CEO

Advising the Board of Directors of Cochener Garvey Capital Partners, Inc. on the growth of Keycentrix, a software company providing technology to improve the operations of pharmacies across the US.

Cochener Garvey Capital Partners, Inc.

Advisor To The Board

Ambit, Inc

Advisor

Silicon Valley Robotics (SVR) supports the innovation and commercialization of robotics technologies. We host the Silicon Valley Robot Block Party, networking events, investor forums, a directory, jobs board and provide additional services/information for members. Silicon Valley Robotics is a 501(c)6 nonprofit, a professional association representing the robotics cluster of northern California. Silicon Valley Robotics was launched in 2010 by a network of robotics companies in the greater Bay Area.
            

    
    

    
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Silicon Valley Robotics

Board Member

Contributing to analyses of healthcare and technology for Wikistrat clients.

Wikistrat

Senior Analyst

Ellipsis Health

Provide help and support to Fresco Capital and portfolio companies.  Fresco Capital is an early stage investment fund with a focus on creating maximum impact for our companies, investors, and partners.

Fresco Capital

Impact Partner

Advising an early stage company with an innovative new product in the robotics and AI area.

Geppetto

Naked is a 3D Fitness Tracker that gives you a holistic picture of your body and how it changes over time. Naked uses 3D scanning technology to track your shape, measurements, body fat %, and weight to give you unprecedented insights into how your lifestyle affects your health.  Founded in early 2015, Naked Labs is committed to promoting health through honest insights.

Naked Labs

Silicon Valley Robotics (SVR) supports the innovation and commercialization of robotics technologies.  We host the Silicon Valley Robot Block Party, networking events, investor forums, a directory, jobs board and provide additional services/information for members.  Silicon Valley Robotics is a 501(c)6 nonprofit, a professional association representing the robotics cluster of northern California. Silicon Valley Robotics was launched in 2010 by a network of robotics companies in the greater Bay Area
            

    
    

    
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Director of Business Development

Solbit is a family education robot based on STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Math) framework, with integrated camera and voice recognition with a cloud-based language library, whose primary mission to be the child’s personal learning companion. In the morning, the child is warmly welcomed by Solbit, in the afternoon, Solbit reviews Math with the child and in the evening, Solbit reads a story with the child and then plays soothing music to put the child to bed. The initial target user are children ages 4 – 7 years old and the target buyer are their parents, generally in the age range of 25 – 40 years old.

Solbit is part of a game changing solution that enables children to have emotionally engaging life and skills-building learning experiences via learning games that integrate with our Robot, daily reminders that guide parents and integrated with Internet of Things (IoT) devices (e.g., sensors throughout the home) to complete the family experience.
            

    
    

    
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7 Senses Labs, Inc. - Story-based Math learning for children from Space and Beyond!

Worked for five months with the IDEO San Francisco studio as the Startup in Residence.  Managed the Catalia Health team and interactions with many of our great IDEO colleagues during the time we were in the studio.  Catalia Health worked with IDEO on designing our new robotic personal healthcare companion, on marketing and branding for the company, and on user experience design for our product.

IDEO is an award-winning global design firm that takes a human-centered, design-based approach to helping organizations in the public and private sectors innovate and grow.
            

    
    

    
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IDEO

Startup in Residence CEO

12 labs is a spinoff from the MIT Media Lab, and is funded by top Silicon Valley investors including Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff, and Google Health Founder Adam Bosworth. Our flagship product is the Applause health app.

Applause uses data science algorithms and behavioral psychology to make suggestions and predictions specifically for you. Being located in Palo Alto gives us access to the world's top talent in everything from engineering architecture to design and branding. We have a world class team building your ultimate fitness companion.
            

    
    

    
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12 Labs

With the advent of wearable devices come a slew of 'Quantified Self'. We developed an Aggregator Platform to put the data being integrated and aggregate into meaningful context. For example, steps, calories consumed, and deep sleep have to be contextualized to allow for better interpretation, better use, and possibly move towards providing a predictive capacity.

Weartech Inc.

Board Member and Advisor

iMatchative is creating AltX, a state of the art, automated matching platform that provides hedge funds and investors with superior, more intelligent tools to use when searching for investment opportunities. My role is to translate the work of the psychology team into tools in the web-based product in order to effectively leverage the academic and research expertise within the organization.

IMATCHATIVE INC.

Consultant

Planet is a satellite startup that has the largest fleet of commercial satellites in space as of mid-2014.  Their goal is to provide the most current images of the entire earth to their customers.  I am helping the team with ground station operations -- finding and acquiring locations, assisting with the installation of antennas and dishes, and ensuring the ongoing independent operation of each satellite ground station.

Planet Labs

HAXLR8R is a startup accelerator focused on getting hardware startups off the ground as quickly and efficiently as possible.  Located in the heart of the world's manufacturing and electronics capital in Shenzhen, China, HAXLR8R is a leader in helping founders make physical things and turn that passion into companies.  I have served as a mentor to the companies since the first iteration of the program, discussing our experience prototyping, building, and selling a new product with a significant hardware component.
            

    
    

    
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Mentor

AcceleratorHK is a three month startup accelerator program based in Hong Kong and focused on companies doing hybrid mobile development.  I have served as one of the mentors to the companies since the program's inception.

AcceleratorHK

I taught graduate-level courses on social robotics to Masters and Ph.D. students at PolyU.  The interdisciplinary classes were housed within the School of Design and developed students' understanding of the intersection among computer science, engineering, psychology, and design.  The courses were largely project-based, which meant that the semester concluded with students presenting novel robots that did something useful and interesting in the real world.

Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Visiting Lecturer

Intuitive Automata created interactive robotic coaches to help people with long-term healthcare challenges.  Our platform was designed to allow our coaches to create, build up, and maintain a long-term relationship with an individual.  The first product that we built on top of this is the Autom™ weight loss coach.

We started IA based on the work I did for my Ph.D. at the MIT Media Lab and Boston University Medical Center.  Founded in 2007, the company took that academic work and turned it into a platform and product that enables long-term behavior change healthcare applications to be more effective.
            

    
    

    
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Intuitive Automata Inc.

During a six month period, I helped researchers at MERL to test their work on embedded conversational agents using interactive robots.  Using their software and hardware (MERL's Mel robot), I helped to develop a demonstration-based conversation between the robot and users and carried out extensive human-robot interaction studies to better understand the nature of this interaction.

This work led to a conference paper and a journal paper in Artificial Intelligence, a top AI academic journal.
            

    
    

    
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MERL

Summer Intern - Human-Robot Interaction

My Ph.D. work at the MIT Media Lab focused on long-term human-robot interaction (HRI).  The coursework I assembled ranged from AI to psychology to experimental design.  I also spent much of my time in real-world environments to better understand and conduct hands-on studies of how technology is used and adopted or rejected.  This included a year of observing interaction with simple social robots in elderly care facilities and three years in the Nutrition and Weight Management Clinic at Boston University Medical Center.

This work concluded with the successful defense of a dissertation on long-term HRI focused on healthcare applications of social robots.  I conducted a randomized, controlled medical trial of a weight loss coach at Boston Medical that showed that this new interface was significantly more effective than existing programs for helping individuals adhere to a weight loss program.
            

    
    

    
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MIT Media Lab

Ph.D. Candidate

Continuing my previous work as a research assistant, I oversaw the construction, completion, and establishment of a variety of research projects in a novel, home-based research environment known as the Aware Home Research Lab.  Housed within Georgia Tech's College of Computing and the Georgia Tech Broadband Institute, the Aware Home's research focus was specifically on aging in place applications of technology for seniors and included work in sensors, applications, deployment, and testing of these technologies.

As a research faculty member, I taught courses on related technologies, advised undergraduate students, and oversaw numerous senior research projects that were related to our areas of focus.
            

    
    

    
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Research Faculty and Lab Manager

Served as a legislative aid to Representative Curtis Jenkins.

Georgia General Assembly

Special Assistant

Helped to develop software test suite for verification of the Access Node Express line of products.  Also led the Nortel Co-op Council for the 50+ interns and co-op students per term.

Nortel Networks

Software Engineer Co-Op

Assisted with the design and development of an operator user interface for the recreation of a foreign surface-to-air missile system to be used in US war games operations.  Did design, implementation, and optimization of C code to run on a Unix and VxWorks platforms for real-time user interface updates to accurately reflect the original system.  Integrated with radar system input to create appropriate on-screen outputs for the operators.