Ramin Reza Rajaii, JD, MBA, MS · San Francisco Bay Area
Education
Doctor of Medicine (MD) — Class of 2030 The Ohio State University College of Medicine, Columbus, OH
Half-Tuition OSUCOM "Distinction" Merit Scholarship ($100,000) · MCAT 523 (99th percentile)
Juris Doctor (JD), Business Law Concentration — May 2024 University of Wisconsin Law School, Madison, WI
Full-Tuition "Law-in-Action" Merit Scholarship ($156,000) · LSAT 179 (99.9th percentile)
· Dean's Honor List · Best Performance, International Trade Law
Master of Business Administration (MBA) — August 2021 Indiana University Kelley School of Business, Bloomington, IN · GPA 3.738
Master of Science (MS), Healthcare Management and Bioinformatics — June 2014 Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH · High Pass (highest designation)
Bachelor of Science (BS), Neuroscience and Spanish — June 2013 University of California, Los Angeles · GPA 3.623 ·
College and Departmental Highest Honors with Thesis · Dean's Honors List (8 semesters)
Research appointments
Research Associate, Clinical Outcomes and Health Economics
— August 2024 to present OSU Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, OH · mentor, Dr. Min-Jeong Cho
UCSF Medical Center, San Francisco, CA · mentor, Dr. Scott Hansen
Lead investigator, IRB-approved retrospective lymphedema cohort study (n>150) on
axillary reverse mapping in post-mastectomy ALND patients.
Developed the OASIS implementation framework and cost-benefit analysis for outpatient
injection-related soft tissue infection services serving 500+ patients annually; accepted to
PSRC 2026 with podium presentation at Plastic Surgery The Meeting, October 2026.
Reconciled 27,731 source rows into 5,939 encounters representing 3,464 patients; defined
a 409-patient eligible cohort with follow-up measured in 284; built three prespecified and
five sensitivity analyses.
Systematic reviews of virtual surgical planning and 3D printing in hand surgery (40+
studies), deep sternal wound infection management (60+ studies), and GLP-1 agonist effects on
BMI and lymphatic conditions (n>200).
Graduate Research Scholar, Neuroscience — May to October 2022 Wisconsin Institutes for Medical Research, Madison, WI
NMDAR-mediated excitotoxicity in multiple sclerosis models; co-authored poster at the
Society for Neuroscience (2024).
Research Scholar, Neurology and Neurosurgery — 2009 to 2013 UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, Ahmanson-Lovelace Brain Mapping Center
Honors thesis on a novel bio-polymer hydrogel promoting axonal regeneration in
ischemic stroke models.
Professional experience
Founder and Principal AI Engineer — Rajaii Labs, Inc.
· February 2026 to present
Architected and shipped Substrate, a long-horizon production AI agent with a six-layer
hallucination defense grounding output in a deterministic facts layer authoritative over
retrieval-augmented generation.
Full-duplex realtime voice, persistent image memory, autonomous background cognition, and
audit-grade cost telemetry reconciled to the provider ledger to the exact token.
Founder, Principal Consultant, and Medical Writer —
Rajaii Consulting LLC · November 2020 to present
Authored eight regulatory R&D dossiers for Medosome Biotec across remyelination
therapeutics, oral peptide delivery, and probiotic platforms, including a 160+ page regulatory
feasibility report verified against primary FDA, PubMed/PMC, ClinicalTrials.gov, and USPTO
sources.
Competitive landscape mapping across 10+ indications; freedom-to-operate analyses and
patent landscape reviews; USPTO prosecution support answering a Section 112(a)
breadth-of-claims rejection.
AI Training Legal Expert — AI Data Training Hub
· January to April 2026
Attorney-verified legal training data at a 96%+ QA pass rate, 80+ items weekly;
annotation rubrics and systematic error analysis reducing targeted failure modes by ~18%.
Medical and Legal Expert AI Assessment Writer —
Snorkel AI · June to August 2025
Authored 150+ graduate-level medical and legal evaluation tasks benchmarking frontier
LLM reasoning, with scoring rubrics for reproducible model evaluation.
Summer Law Associate — McCormick, Barstow, Sheppard,
Wayte and Carruth LLP, Fresno, CA · May to August 2023
Drafted 15+ legal memoranda, 8 motions, and 3 complaints across 6 concurrent
commercial litigation matters; received a full-time attorney offer.
Student Attorney — University of Wisconsin Law and
Entrepreneurship Clinic · June 2022 to June 2023
Pro bono transactional services to 10+ startups under attorney supervision across 200+
billable-equivalent hours: LLC operating agreements, Terms of Service, privacy policies, and
corporate governance documents.
Law Student Extern, Legal Technology — New Era ADR
· 2022 to 2023
Founder and Head of Product — MindFull Technologies,
Los Angeles, CA · June 2015 to July 2018
Mental health technology application; secured $15,000+ in competitive funding from
UCLA, the UC Berkeley Big Ideas Competition, and the California Medical Association.
Healthcare and Intellectual Property Consultant —
UCLA Business of Science Center · August 2009 to June 2013
Secured a $100,000 NIH grant for the Biomedical Device Innovation Program; drafted
provisional patent applications and prior art searches for faculty startups.
Business and Marketing Consultant — Association of
MD/MBA Programs · June 2014 to July 2017
Scaled the organization to 100+ affiliated dual-degree programs; organized events
attracting 300+ student and faculty attendees.
Teaching
See the Teaching page for the full record. Twelve years,
1,500+ students, across ExamKrackers, Blueprint Test Prep, Limitless Prep, Varsity Tutors,
LSAT Unplugged, and Prep for Success Tutors.
Publications
Ten peer-reviewed publications, four manuscripts under review or in preparation, 20+
conference presentations and abstracts, and eight professional R&D dossiers. See
Publications and
ORCID 0009-0009-5517-6701.
Awards and honors
Samuel J. Roessler MDSR Research Scholarship, The Ohio State University (2025)
OSU Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Mentorship, 1 of 8 selected (2025)
Best Performance, International Trade Law, University of Wisconsin Law School (2024)
UCLA College Honors Graduation Award, one per graduating class (2013)
UCLA Chancellor's Service Award (2013)
Los Angeles Business Journal Healthcare Leadership Award (2013)
Dean's Prize, UCLA Science Poster Day (2013)
Iranian Scholarship Foundation Four-Year Merit Scholarship, $24,000 (2009–2013)
More than $256,000 in competitive merit scholarships
Certifications
Basic Life Support (BLS) · HIPAA · CITI Human Subjects Research
(Biomedical and Social-Behavioral)