Ishani Tagore

I’m a Product Developer with a passion for 0-to-1 launches and rapid experimentation

My Experiences

In the scrappy world of early-stage product development, I’ve found a home for skills acquired across my careers as an AI Product Manager, SaaS and PLG Investor and Actuary.

Selected Products & Projects

Designed a widget for depression detection using voice inputs that was integrated into Headspace.

Voice Biomarkers

Designed a smartwatch for seniors in Assisted Living Facilities in collaboration with Chicago City Innovation Labs.

Wearables for the Elderly

Building an interactive assistant for Project Architects to review construction docs and plans to ensure they meet design intent, and for junior architects to shortcut their learning curves.

AI Assistant for Architectural Review

Critically evaluated Twitter’s credibility as a valid source of education events and trends using graph analysis and high performance computing techniques (PySpark, Graphframes, Geopandas and Jaccard similarity)

Network Analysis of 100M Education-related Tweets

Built a web app for internal ML and Clinical teams to annotate telehealth audio and text, and improve acoustic / semantic models. Used Svelte JS for custom development, and no-code (Budibase) for the rest.

Machine Learning Labeling App

Roadmapped, designed and executed an ML architecture for a AI depression screens, auto-generated case notes and conversational topic modeling features embedded in telehealth calls.

AI Assistant for Nurse Case Managers

Research & Projects

Providing Congressional Testimony on Emerging Techniques in Responsible AI

Wrote a report that included case studies from 200+ interviews and workshops during my time at the World Economic Forum (WEF). My team and I were summoned to provide Congressional Testimony by the White House Taskforce on AI on this body of work.

Mobilized a COVID Data Consortium, taking Privacy Tech from Lab to Launch

Proposed use cases to commercialize emerging Privacy technologies developed in a Stanford Lab. I later initiated a data sharing collaboration between banks, the government, and a Privacy-preserving startup to accelerate SMB relief via COVID credit guarantees.     

Investing in a Pre-seed Pediatric Occupational Therapy Startup

As an Investor for Corazon Capital, I spearheaded the case for investment in Kinspire despite pushback from recessionary headwinds. This was one of several digital health and femtech investments across 2021-22.