MS 1986, PhD 1991
CTO-for-hire
Steve Strassmann is currently a software engineer at Overjet.ai, a company applying AI to healthcare.
Steve was a founder of two venture-backed startups, and has held senior engineering roles at Benchling, Kyruus, Apple, Orange/France Telecom, and VMware, leading commercial projects at the forefront of mobile, cloud computing, and healthtech. He was CTO of Flipkey, a subsidiary of TripAdvisor.
He served as CTO of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, leading bipartisan efforts to digitally transform state government.
Steve mentors entrepreneurs at the Harvard iLab. He was Entrepreneur in Residence at the Dept. of Biomedical Informatics at Harvard Medical School, and a visiting scientist in the Dept. of Genetics and the Wyss Institute. His research interests include applications of synthetic biology to solving problems of security, identity, and data integrity, as well as the classification of pathologies which afflict learning algorithms.
Steve is an inventor on seven patents, and has received three degrees from MIT including a PhD from the MIT Media Lab for work in artificial intelligence, as an advisee of Marvin Minsky.
How did your experience at the Lab influence your next step?
The Media Lab taught me to get new kinds of answers by asking different kinds of questions. It ruined me for "normal" work, but opened many new doors for one-of-a-kind jobs.
Stay curious.