Basmaa Ali MD MBA is a Resident Scientist at School of Science and Engineering at Lahore University of Management Sciences and an Instructor in Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Ali has worked in Big Data in Medicine since 2015 when she started building a multi-stream biobank for migraine prediction with Professors Thomas Heldt PHD at MIT and Suleman Shahid PHD at LUMS. Dr Ali is a board-certified internal medicine physician and the founder of Zanjabee Integrative Medicine, a primary care practice based in Boston which used lifestyle as a first-line therapeutic tool for its patients. At Harvard, Dr. Ali has been focused on equitable and culturally congruent for all with an emphasis on treatment paradigms of Muslim patients. Her work has been recognized by the Office of Diversity at Harvard Medical School. Dr Ali is a graduate of King Edward Medical College and has an MBA from MIT Sloan School of Management. Her current work at LUMS focuses on building a data-platform for chronic diseases with episodic exacerbations as well as an AI-enabled physician’s assistant.

Agha Ali Raza PHD is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at LUMS and the founding director of the Center for Speech and Language Technologies (CSaLT). He is a Fulbright Scholar and received his Ph.D. from the Language Technologies Institute (School of Computer Science) at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA. His research interests include Speech and Natural Language Processing, Speech-based Human-Computer Interfaces, Machine Learning, and Information & Communication Technologies for Development (ICT4D). His research aims to enable information access and social connectivity for under-connected and under-served populations (low-literate, low-income, tech naïve, visually impaired, oral cultures, linguistically and socially marginalized, and geographically remote communities) throughout the developing world. His work in Speech and Language technologies focuses on localizing linguistic resources and techniques to the Pakistani and South Asian context to develop Speech Recognition, Text-to- Speech, Voice-biometrics, Spoken Term Detection, and relevant capabilities. His interests in Machine Learning include creating and detecting Urdu audio deepfakes, rapid and organic collection of language datasets, and techniques, including dataset pruning to bring large datasets within reach of moderate computing resources. Over the last three years, the benefits of his research have directly impacted the lives of more than 300,000 people via various projects in Pakistan, India, and West Africa. These projects include innovative techniques to spread development-enabling information to offline, low-literate, and non tech populations, voice-based social media and crowd sourcing platforms, and health information services. His research has been funded by Google Inc., Facebook research, UNICEF Innovations Fund, the Gates Foundation, GIZ, NIH, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, Medicine, Keck Futures Initiative (NAKFI), and the Higher Education Commission of Pakistan. He has been an Associate Chair for CHI since 2019, the short papers PC chair for ICTD 2017, and the open session chair for ICTD 2022.

Suleman Shahid EngD PHD is an Associate Professor in Computer Science at the Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS) and the director of the LUMSx - Digital Learning Center at LUMS. At LUMS, he directs the 'Computer-Human Interaction for Inclusion, Wellbeing and Learning' (CHISEL) Lab, manages the university’s Usability Lab and is the Faculty Lead for the Facebook Innovation Lab at LUMS. Suleman is also a part of the National Center on Big Data and Cloud Computing at LUMS. Suleman is also a Senior Design and Strategy Consultant. He works with private and public sectors on design-driven innovation, people-centered change management, and digital transformation projects. Suleman’s primary area of interest is designing learning and healthcare technologies for/with the margins in the global south with an emphasis on using participatory and inclusive design to drive innovation.

Adrian Koren MS is the Engineering lead for Darcheeni and has developed the web and mobile apps as well as the recording platform for Darcheeni. Prior to Darcheeni, Adrian was the senior principal engineer at Autodesk where he was the team lead for BIM360, a game-changing facilities management app. Adrian has 20 years of experience in building apps and platforms for companies like Vela and Iron Mountain as a mobile architect and a staff engineer respectively. Adrian has a BS in computer science from Duke university and a MS in computer science from University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Adrian has helped Darcheeni build and mentor a team of A-players. He was in Pakistan in April 2023 to meet with patients and physicians which is why his team is developing software solutions that our end-users love.