Ritankar Das, 18, double major in bioengineering and chemical biology, is the youngest University Medalist in more than a century....
Ritankar Das
American technology entrepreneur and scientist
Ritankar Das is an American scientist and technology entrepreneur.
Currently, he is the founder and CEO of Forta Health, an AI digital health company that improves access to personalized quality care in children with autism.
Ritankar Das, an undergraduate double-majoring in bioengineering and chemical biology, has been selected as a 2013 Goldwater scholar.
Das was the founder and CEO of Dascena, a healthcare-focused machine learning AI startup. At 18, he was the youngest University Medalist (top graduating senior) in at least a century among over 6000 graduates from UC Berkeley.[1][2][3][4] He has been featured in the San Francisco Chronicle,[1]ABC News,[4]Times of India[5] and over 100 other media outlets around the globe.[6][7]
Early life and education
Das was born in Kolkata, India and moved Milwaukee, Wisconsin at the age seven.
He graduated from Mission San Jose High School in Fremont, CA before attending the University of California, Berkeley.[