Nudge by Longevity Solutions
Team Members

Core team

Rufus Sweeney
Rufus is a 4th-year medical student at UW-Madison and Oklahoma Choctaw. He plans to build on his work in metabolism research that he published in Science Magazine by specializing in family/preventive medicine so that he can help individuals and populations enact behavioral change to increase healthspan. He has experience in launching and scaling software startups.

Megan Murphy-Belcaster
Megan is an indigenous 4th-year medical student at UW-Madison. She intends to specialize in OB/GYN. She is helping launch Nudge because she is passionate about reproductive justice, which she defines as the right to have a child, or not to have a child, on one’s own terms. Her research publications feature work with Indigenous populations and their stress coping mechanisms during COVID-19.

David Martin
David is a 4th-year medical student at UW-Madison. He is applying to psychiatry residency programs and is excited about the psychology of behavior and behavior change, an interest that he has been able to explore with this project.

Alex Smith
Alex is a PhD candidate in chemical engineering at UW-Madison. He focuses on the development and application of topology, geometry, statistics, and data science within chemical

engineering. His unique application of AI to chemical engineering allows him to approach problems differently, which has enabled us to discover ML models that outperform others in the industry.

Laura Cooney, MD
Dr. Cooney is faculty in the Department of Ob-Gyn at UW-Madison. She attended medical school at the Yale School of Medicine and did residency and fellowship at UPenn, where she specialized in reproductive endocrinology and infertility (REI). She is particularly interested in outcomes of patients with infertility due to polycystic ovary syndrome.

Joey Andrews, PhD
Dr. Andrews is faculty in the department of Mechanical Engineering at UW-Madison. He earned his PhD from Duke University and specializes in printed/flexible electronics, electronically transduced biosensors, and electronics and nanosensors. He is entrepreneurial at heart, successfully commercializing an innovation in non-invasive tire pressure sensing while working on his PhD.

Advisors

Jonathan Lifferth
Jonathan is a machine learning (ML) engineer and entering PhD student in bioinformatics. He has experience training and deploying ML algorithms with many types of datasets, including an algorithm that accurately forecast glucose excursion events.

Thor Larson
Thor is a biomedical engineering student at UW-Madison and self-taught software engineer. He launched Solis, a healthtech company which uses AI and thermal imaging to detect diabetic foot ulcers earlier than current best practice, allowing patients to make limb-sparing modifications.

Miriam Sweeney
Miriam is a product manager with specialized expertise in user experience design and customer discovery. She has led several development teams, has launched revenue-generating startups, and understands well the process of fundraising.