About — Salil Patel

I was a physician-scientist: an academic doctor in radiology at Guy's and St Thomas' in London; DPhil (PhD), computational neuroscience, Oxford. Before that I was an academic resident doctor at Chelsea and Westminster and the Royal Marsden, where I oscillated between ICU and A&E during the first few waves of COVID.

I am now the CEO/Co-Founder of TimeTrace Labs, a mathematics and artificial intelligence company in Bloomsbury, London. We build methods for measuring change in the human body, across individuals and populations, using mathematics and deep learning, in that order.

I was born in California and grew up between Los Angeles and London: school in one, family and summers in the other. I studied in Boston for a while and worked in New York. London won.

Much of what I work on, and a good deal of what I read, concerns time. Borges folded it into labyrinths; Memento runs it backwards; Woolf, a few streets from the office, compressed a life into a single day, taking her cue from Joyce in Ulysses and, in turn, handing it to McEwan in Saturday.

A freediver descending through blue water, surrounded by fish — I am also lucky enough to hold scuba and freediving licences.

The best way to reach me is salil@timetracelabs.com.

This site will change slowly, or quickly, depending on the time in my life.