Mona Sheikh

Mona Sheikh has held various roles in the technology industry since 2006. Mona began as a PhD student in Electrical & Computer Engineering at Rice University, where they wrote a thesis on Genomic Detection of Bacteria using Compressive Sensing, inventing a DNA sensing platform for bacterial detection. In 2009, they held a Venture Fellow role at DFJ Mercury (now Mercury Fund). From 2011 to 2012, they were a Postdoctoral Associate at Whitehead Institute, where they implemented an image processing pipeline for facial feature detection in a pedigree study, and analyzed data for causative mutation discovery for a rare genetic disorder. From 2012 to 2016, they were a Senior Technical Product Manager at Counsyl. From 2016 to 2018, they were a Product Manager at Nuna Inc. and from 2018 to 2020, they were a Senior Product Manager at Qventus, Inc. Currently, they hold the role of Director of Product at Suki.

Mona Sheikh has a B.S. in Engineering & Applied Science (Electrical Engineering) from Caltech and an M.S. and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering (compressed sensing, bacterial genomics, statistical signal processing) from Rice University.