Ahad Hassan

I'm a junior at New York University studying Information Systems and Technology, with a minor in Mathematics, graduating in spring 2028.

I previously co-founded Neurobane, a neurodiagnostics company applying neuroimaging and machine learning to psychiatric diagnosis. My work there was primarily commercial and analytical. I built the financial model, cost structure, and unit economics; wrote the market analysis that informed our pricing and go-to-market strategy; managed hardware vendor selection and negotiation; and held 100+ discovery calls with clinicians, hospital administrators, and telehealth providers. I also organized events Neurobane hosted for a16z's NY Tech Week. We raised over $400,000 from investors and private grants, and I owned the investor materials and most of the direct investor communication and our keynote at XPANSE Abu Dhabi to roughly 5,000 investors, scientists, and Nobel laureates.

Most of my time went to conversations with individuals deciding whether to put their own money into the company. The work was to build a defensible view of a technically complicated business, explain it in terms that mattered to whomever I was talking to, and hold up when it was questioned.

Outside of that I build. I write Python automation for problems I run into myself, mostly tools that pull scattered public data into something structured and usable. The through line is taking something tedious and technical and making it useful. I also create video games for fun using C++ in Unreal Engine.

Areas of focus: financial modeling, financial analysis, market research, automation, business development, capital raising, investor relations, client relationship management, requirements gathering.