Leadership & Career — Taposh Dutta Roy

Taposh Dutta Roy is a healthcare AI leader, researcher, and author focused on building responsible AI systems for environments where trust, safety, and accountability matter. His work brings together enterprise AI execution, bioethics, governance, and advanced computing to help organizations deploy AI with rigor, responsibility, and measurable impact.

He is currently researching at the intersection of bioethics and AI at Harvard Medical School, where he co-developed the Autonomy Index, a framework for evaluating AI readiness in clinical decision-making, with Dr. Rebecca Weintraub Brendel at the HMS Center for Bioethics. His published work includes the BAIA (Bioethics Artificial Intelligence Advisory) framework, a peer-reviewed agentic AI system for clinical ethical decision support, published in Cureus and indexed in PubMed.

Taposh is the author of two books: Intelligent Governance: Navigating the Complexities of AI in Classical and Quantum Computing, and Medical Image Processing with Deep Learning. He holds a USPTO patent (19/247,983) for a Hospital Digital Twin system. In 2025, he and fellow HMS student Nada Salem won first place at MIT Hacking Medicine for HospiTwin, recognized for the Best Use of Generative AI in Healthcare.

Earlier in his career, Taposh co-founded Bio-Integrated Solutions, a biotech company developing DNA sequencers and liquid-handling devices for proteomics. He served as Head of AD Products at Inpowered and Netshelter (acquired by Ziff Davis), and as Senior Associate Consultant at Sapient (now Publicis Sapient). He is the founder and chair of the Silicon Valley Quantum and Advanced Computing Group.

Taposh holds a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from the Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, and an MBA from the University of California, Davis.