Our Team

The people advancing quantitative neuroscience

Our team brings together expertise across neuroscience, neuroimaging, statistics, medicine, and large-scale data science — united by a shared mission to make the brain measurable.

Jakob Seidlitz, PhD
Chief Executive Officer
Jakob Seidlitz, PhD
Chief Executive Officer

Senior scientist at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and UPenn. Unique expertise across neurobiology, medical image processing and data science, and integrative bioinformatics. University of Cambridge PhD.

Josh Bernstock, MD, PhD, MPH
Chief Medical Officer
Josh Bernstock, MD, PhD, MPH
Chief Medical Officer

Scientist-surgeon at MIT, Brigham and Women’s and Boston Children’s Hospitals. Unique expertise in drug repositioning and development of novel/experimental immunotherapeutics. University of Cambridge PhD, University of Alabama at Birmingham MD.

Kelly Leyden, MS
Chief Strategy and Product Officer
Kelly Leyden, MS
Chief Strategy and Product Officer

Kelly is a product and strategy leader with over a decade of experience at the intersection of neuroscience, AI, and precision medicine. She was an early employee and senior product leader at Octave Bioscience, where she helped scale AI-enabled neurology diagnostics to nationwide clinical adoption and played a central role in portfolio strategy, commercialization, and fundraising. At Centile, Kelly will lead company and product strategy as we build and scale a clinically impactful neuroimaging platform.

Ariana Familiar, PhD
SVP of Technology
Ariana Familiar, PhD
SVP of Technology

Ariana is a healthcare technology leader who is devoted to building technology that transforms how healthcare works in the real world. She brings that same commitment to rigorous, impactful science to everything we build at Centile Bio. Ariana has deep expertise at the intersection of medical imaging, machine learning, and scalable cloud infrastructure, and has led large-scale imaging technology initiatives across academic medicine and national research consortia. Ariana holds a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania, with deep roots in neuroimaging and computational modeling.Before joining the team, Ariana built and shipped AI-powered systems for pediatric cancer research at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (Center for Data-Driven Discovery in Biomedicine) — from automated tumor segmentation to cloud-scale data pipelines processing tens of thousands of clinical imaging exams across hospitals nationwide. She has a proven track record of bridging the gap between research and production, leading multidisciplinary teams, and navigating the real-world complexity of clinical data standards, privacy, and infrastructure.

Andrew Van, PhD
Sr. Machine Learning Engineer
Andrew Van, PhD
Sr. Machine Learning Engineer

Andrew Van is a Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Centile Bioscience, where he applies his expertise in neuroimaging and ML to advance data-driven diagnostics for brain diseases and disorders across the lifespan. He brings deep experience at the intersection of machine learning and medical imaging, most recently serving as Senior Machine Learning Scientist at Turing Medical, where he led R&D efforts behind two FDA-cleared neurosurgical software products. Andrew holds a PhD in Bioengineering from Washington University in St. Louis, where his research on precision brain mapping methods contributed to publications in Nature, PNAS, and Neuron. He also holds patents in real-time MRI motion monitoring and distortion correction, and has a track record of translating research into production-grade clinical tools.

Anna Zapaishchykova, PhD
Sr. Machine Learning Scientist
Anna Zapaishchykova, PhD
Sr. Machine Learning Scientist

Anna has a PhD in AI for Medical Imaging and was a research fellow at AIM-Harvard MGB, KannLab, and Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Her work focuses on medical imaging, with broader interests in pediatric brain imaging, computer vision, machine learning, and causality.

Scientific and clinical advisors
We collaborate with globally recognized leaders in brain research, clinical neurology, and computational science.
Aaron Alexander-Bloch, MD, PhD
Scientific Advisor
Aaron Alexander-Bloch, MD, PhD
Scientific Advisor

Assistant Professor and Attending Psychiatrist at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and UPenn. Unique expertise in network science, neuroimaging-genetics, University of Cambridge PhD, University of California Los Angeles MD.

Hannah Mamuszka, MS
Scientific Advisor
Hannah Mamuszka, MS
Scientific Advisor

Founder and CEO of Alva10, an advisory firm established in March 2016, and Managing Partner of 10Edison, a diagnostics-focused venture fund. Specializes in creating partnerships between payers and diagnostic companies to enhance the value of diagnostic technology. Harvard University MS.

Ed Bullmore, MD, PhD
Scientific Advisor
Ed Bullmore, MD, PhD
Scientific Advisor

Regius Professor of Psychiatry at King's College London and Emeritus Professor at the University of Cambridge. Pioneer of network analytics in human neuroscience and former VP of Experimental Medicine at GlaxoSmithKline. King’s College London PhD, University of Oxford MD.

Richard Bethlehem, PhD
Scientific Advisor
Richard Bethlehem, PhD
Scientific Advisor

Assistant Professor in Neuroinformatics at the University of Cambridge. Unique expertise in neurodevelopment, big data analytics, and machine learning. University of Cambridge PhD.

Michael Schöll, PhD
Scientific Advisor
Michael Schöll, PhD
Scientific Advisor

Professor of Molecular Medicine at the University of Gothenburg and Principal Research Fellow at University College London. Specializes in biomarker development for neurodegenerative disorders. Karolinska Institutet PhD.