About

🤠 Hello! I’m Ryan - an undergraduate at Harvard studying CS and bioengineering with a minor in history. I love to build and invest in cool products particularly in the healthcare, privacy, and applied AI/ML spaces.

🏥 I’m currently building Blanket, clinical digital infrastructure championing drug price transparency. Otherwise, I’ve built my affinity for digital healthcare through my research at MIT CSAIL and the Broad Institute, developing biomedical data privacy solutions [paper] and genomic sequence libraries [paper] alongside my most recent machine learning work at the Data to Actionable Knowledge (DtAK) lab, where I’ve been fascinated with quantifying uncertainty in clinical ML to enable better interpretability and risk-awareness within patients.

📈 I have a background in investing - I spent summers at Citadel and SIG learning the nuances of trading in addition to financial excavations at APL (real estate PE firm). Last summer, I was at Lead Edge Capital and formerly served as a lead scout for Draper Associates (Tim Draper’s investment vehicle), helping develop growth investment theses and fund exciting entrepreneurial ventures.

🚀 I love building communities exploring new dialogues and initiatives within tech. I co-founded the Harvard Tech Review to provide a communal space for Harvard undergrads to critically assess technology. With now over 50k+ article reads and 60+ articles, we’re always looking to innovate and execute with ambitious folk, so please check out our platform and reach out! Additionally, I created and co-directed the Builders Incubation Program with our alumni having been admitted to YC W21 and recieved over 500k in total cohort funding.

🥳 In my free time, I’ve been engrossed with speculative fiction and trying to leverage storytelling as a methodology to better communicate modern technological problems. Most recently, this manifested in a comic-form primer for differential privacy I made. Moreover, I’ve been reading a fair bit of continental philosophy (Heidigger, Hegel, Bourdieu, etc.) and drawing some frightening parallels between the criticisms of technology from the 40s/50s to the modern culture of tech mania.

📨 Please feel free to get in touch anytime. My email is rkhkim00 at gmail dot com!