Nikhil Sindhwani

Lead product and clinical delivery for oncology image analysis services serving Fortune 500 pharmaceutical clients

• ● Served as product owner for automated statistical analysis pipelines, defining vision and development roadmap for data ingestion and QC pipelines, and developing the treatment response analysis workflows. The automations and restructured analysis architectures reduced time to analysis by 75%.

• ● Lead cross-functional matrix teams (data science, medical, engineering) delivering imaging endpoints for global oncology clinical trials, managing a portfolio with operational revenue of €1.5M.

• ● Serve as strategic partner to senior pharmaceutical stakeholders, translating complex imaging analytics into clinical insights

LED product strategy for AI-powered surgical workflow optimization platform, securing funding and building pilot programs for data-driven operating room(OR) efficiency improvements

• ● Product owner for instrument tray optimization initiative: defined product vision, technical roadmap, and secured regional funding for pilot development and validation

• ● Leveraged partnerships with Ziekenhuis Oost Limburg to validate product-market fit, piloting data-driven instrument tray optimization to demonstrate measurable impact on OR efficiency, sterilization costs, and staff workload

• ● Architected EU development project consortium across 16 partners in 3 countries for AI surgical workflow development: identified complementary capabilities and aligned competing interests

Bridged academic research and industry commercialization at KU Leuven's Industrial Research Fund (IOF)

• ● Assessed commercial viability of 10+ AI healthcare research projects (genomics, imaging, spatial multiomics) using practical three-factor framework: capability, commitment and commercial opportunity

• ● Designed and secured funding from KU Leuven and Flemish funds for machine learning clinical decision support systems (IMPAKT, IOTA-AI, AIDA and ENZYMARES) totaling €3.2M.