Practice
Blending policy, research, and product craft to keep complex systems steerable.
About
About Kanav Jain
Systems thinker, neurodiversity advocate, and product leader translating research into accountable systems.
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Perspective
Neurodiversity-informed design that protects operators and end users alike.
Leadership
Collaborative partner to founders, civic teams, and health orgs shipping accountable experiences.
About Kanav
About
I'm a systems thinker and product leader who bridges technology, neurodiversity advocacy, and social justice. I love untangling messy structures and designing alternatives that make care, dignity, and accessibility the default.
At Doximity, I led the creation of Doximity Dialer, which now enables over 100 million patient–clinician connections. I later co-founded Andwise to help physicians navigate financial and legal complexity—a venture that deepened my commitment to challenging systemic inefficiencies.
As an autistic person, my advocacy for neurodiversity and cognitive justice is lived as much as written. Every product, article, and collaboration is an invitation to imagine more equitable, care-centered systems.
Milestones
How key moments map to this journey.
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2011
Systems thinking roots
Started mapping how neurodiversity, product, and policy intersect to unlock better care.
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2016
Doximity Dialer ships
Led product for a trusted telehealth caller ID that now supports 100M+ patient–clinician connections.
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2022
Co-founded Andwise
Built dignified planning tools that guide physicians through financial and legal complexity without coercion.
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2024
Syādvāda expands
Published essays translating lived neurodivergence into design principles for equitable systems.
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Research
Selected investigations
Research highlights
Patterns from pairing fieldwork, policy, and product experiments to keep systems corrigible.
Corrigible clinical AI
Paired clinician feedback with model guardrails so triage and communication tools stayed steerable and audit-ready.
Human-in-the-loop QAReliability playbooksRisk-based routing
Non-coercive documentation
Studied how evidence standards can retraumatize patients and reframed paperwork flows to center consent and clarity.
Field interviewsPolicy synthesisAccessible language
Founder governance rituals
Built facilitation templates that kept investors and founders aligned on safety, accountability, and non-extractive growth.
Facilitated retrosDecision logsEthical risk reviews
Thoracic surgery outcomes research
Co-authored thoracic surgery investigations on minimally invasive protocols and perioperative safety metrics for lung cancer patients.
Clinical data analysisProtocol QACollaborative manuscript writing
RNA folding energy landscapes
Built computational models comparing thermodynamic heuristics for RNA secondary structure to benchmark folding predictions against lab results.
Computational modelingEnergy minimizationSimulation benchmarking
Modeling biomaterial transport
Presented an ACS Symposium paper translating bench-scale transport modeling into design guidance for biomaterial devices.
Conference presentationSimulation-to-design translationInterdisciplinary collaboration
Guiding principles
Designing for a less coercive future
I translate research on neurodiversity, patient safety, and market dynamics into actionable product moves.
Care as default
Build flows that reduce cognitive load, respect consent, and widen participation instead of gatekeeping it.
Evidence over lore
Pair qualitative fieldwork with quantitative telemetry to replace harmful heuristics with measurable care outcomes.
Trustworthy automation
Keep humans in the loop with explainable AI, handoffs that feel human, and quality guardrails for sensitive decisions.
Education
Foundations
Education
Grounding in biomedical engineering and systems-minded business leadership.
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MBA · NYU Stern School of Business
Product leadership in regulated markets with an emphasis on sustainable growth and accountable governance.
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B.S. Biomedical Engineering (with honors) · Georgia Institute of Technology
Human-centered clinical systems, pairing biomechanics and design research to make care safer and more accessible.
Community leadership
Mutual aid & mentorship
Community leadership
Spaces where I practice shared stewardship and build infrastructure for neighbors and peers.
Bread SF
Co-founded Bread, a San Francisco party series for small clubs, building a creative identity and crew around bread.fm.
- Produced and promoted ~25 events with bookings, budgets, and venue coordination.
- Built a team to shape the visual identity, ethos, and guest experience for each party.
- Kept crowds and artists safe with clear agreements and inclusive door and floor norms.
Syādvāda
Publishing essays and hosting salons on neurodiversity, algorithms, and civic systems to practice pluralistic decision-making.
- Facilitated reader working groups translating essays into team rituals.
- Set accessibility norms for discussion spaces, including sensory-friendly options and paced dialogue.
- Open-sourced prompts and templates for communities exploring non-coercive governance.
Georgia Tech student society
Supported biomedical engineering peers with mentoring, project reviews, and inclusive event design.
- Paired underclassmen with research labs and capstone partners to widen participation.
- Co-designed workshops that linked classroom theory with clinical empathy and safety.
- Maintained peer advising hours focused on neurodiversity-informed study habits.
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