About — Salil Patel

I was born in California and grew up between two cities: school in London, family and vacations in Los Angeles. I studied in Boston (Mass Eye and Ear/Harvard) and worked in New York (NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia). But London is home.

I trained as 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 a 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 co-founder and CEO of TimeTrace Labs, a maths and AI company that measures and models complex dynamical systems: systems that change continuously but can only be observed periodically, starting with the human body.

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, took the single day from Joyce's Ulysses, compressed a life into it, and handed it on 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. I do reply, eventually. Elsewhere: GitHub, X, LinkedIn.

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