James A. Coppock, PhD
Applied scientist and ML leader, taking AI from research to production in high-stakes healthcare.
j.avery.coppock@gmail.com, LinkedIn, GitHub, Google Scholar.
Experience
October 2026 to present
Manager, AI/ML Applied Science
Infinia ML, the AI arm of Aspirion
- Promoted to manager. Lead the ContractIQ and Pricing & Scoring teams.
January 2025 to October 2026
Senior AI/ML Applied Scientist
Infinia ML, the AI arm of Aspirion
- Lead the ContractIQ and Pricing & Scoring teams.
- Shaped ContractIQ from its earliest design to production: a contract-intelligence platform that turns payer contracts into structured, auditable reimbursement logic, so providers can see what they should be paid and catch underpayments.
- Pricing & Scoring applies ML to denied and underpaid claims to surface the ones most worth pursuing on appeal.
- Set technical direction across both, and build the team that brings AI rigor to revenue integrity.
November 2024 to January 2025
Independent consultant
SolarUnsoiied
October 2023 to November 2024
Principal Data Scientist, leading Data Science & AI
Bionic Health (now Thrive Wellness)
- Built a custom EHR and web and mobile apps for patients and clinicians, as an ML engineer across the platform.
- Designed the system that ingests multi-modal patient data (imaging, labs and blood biomarkers, continuous glucose, blood pressure, sleep and heart rate), runs inference on it, and produces personalized disease-risk profiles, including 30-year cardiovascular risk.
- Built an LLM-powered assistant that lets patients and clinicians ask questions of their health data and get custom analytics on the fly.
- Developed a FHIR-compliant, agent-based generative-AI framework for real-time clinical decision support.
- Built a retrieval-augmented assistant for patient onboarding and clinician-approved lifestyle guidance.
January 2020 to September 2023
ML Research Scientist, Medical Imaging
Duke University
- Built segmentation and registration models that track intervertebral disc structure, composition and function across MRI time points and sequences.
- Developed and validated a diffeomorphic, unsupervised MR registration method for non-invasive, voxel-wise estimates of disc strain in vivo.
- Supported NIH-funded projects (R01AR075399, R01AR074800) with experimental design and statistical analysis.
October 2017 to October 2018
Machine Learning Engineer, Wearable Biometrics
Valencell
- Developed deep-learning algorithms for real-time heart rate and blood pressure from wearable PPG sensors; contributed to a cuffless blood-pressure monitor that went to market.
- Built ETL pipelines for training, testing and validating time-series models.
April 2017 to August 2017
Algorithm Engineer, Embedded Sensors
Wilson Sporting Goods
- Developed algorithms and data pipelines for the Wilson X line of connected footballs and basketballs.
- Ran field studies with NFL and NCAA teams on next-generation analytics for athletes and coaches.
Education
- PhD, Biomedical Engineering, Duke University, 2023
- MS, Applied Neuromechanics, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
- BS, Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology
Skills
- Deep learning and computer vision
- Generative AI and LLM agents (LangGraph, LlamaIndex)
- Signal processing and sensor fusion
- Wearable algorithm development
- Computational statistics
- FHIR and clinical data
- MLOps: Kubernetes, Docker, ArgoCD, Terraform/Bicep
- PyTorch, TensorFlow, Python, R, SQL, C++ (ITK)
- AWS and Azure
Publications, patent and honors are on the Research page.