About the Reviewers

Ilan is currently an undergraduate studying computer science in the College of Engineering at Cornell University. His interests in computer science stemmed from his early work in biophysics where he proposed a schematic that could potentially be used to synthetically create a proton transport Complex I and a virtual representation of the mitochondrion that can now function as the framework to synthesize a real biological system. Throughout his high school education and early years of college, he built various computational models and full-stack applications that showcased his expertise across a wide range of technologies from Mathematica to Ruby on Rails. In his first year of college, he cofounded and led the engineering team for four start-ups that have primarily disrupted their respective industries—MusicTech: Tunetap, MedTech: saund, FinTech: TheSimpleGroup, and FoodTech: Macrofuel. To this day, he contributes to these ventures as a project manager and continues to lead the backend engineering initiative for two Cornell engineering project teams. In addition to his academics and entrepreneurial endeavors, he works as a part-time software engineer for the R&D division at Bloomberg L.P., where he spent two summers researching and optimizing their distributed systems platform for large-scale data analytics.