James Coppock

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    Hi, I'm James.

    I lead applied AI teams that turn messy healthcare signals into decisions people can trust.

    I'm Manager of AI/ML Applied Science at Infinia ML, where my team builds ContractIQ and Pricing & Scoring. Before that I built a health platform at Bionic Health and did a PhD in Biomedical Engineering at Duke. I live in Durham with my wife, in a century home we restored. I photograph wildlife, I lift, and we're avid Caniacs!

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    James Coppock smiling in a pink knit hat and purple rain jacket, with a waterfall and rocky stream behind him.
    Trained as
    PhD, Biomedical Engineering, Duke
    Published
    9 peer-reviewed papers, 1 US patent
    Shipped
    Wearable, sports-sensing and healthcare AI products

    A night in my signals

    Night of October 12, 2026

    Into sleep
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    Heart rate
    — bpm
    HRV
    — ms
    Stage
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    Recorded by the ring I wear every night, with readings every five minutes and movement every thirty seconds. Drag across the chart, or use the slider, to read any moment.

    That's my heart, asleep. Somewhere between the ring on my finger and this chart, a noisy flicker of light became a heart rate you can read. I've spent my career on that kind of step, from heartbeats and spine MRIs to the payer contracts that decide what care is paid.

    Today that means leading the applied-science team at Infinia ML, the AI arm of Aspirion, where we turn dense payer contracts into reimbursement logic people can audit. See how the heartbeat gets out of the noise.

    Four signals

    Valencell, Wilson

    The body

    Heart rate and blood pressure from optical sensors that keep working while people move, and real-time ball tracking from sensors inside footballs, built with NFL teams.

    Duke University

    The tissue

    Deep-learning segmentation and registration of spine MRI, measuring how intervertebral discs deform under everyday load. It became my dissertation. Read the case study.

    Bionic Health

    The person

    A custom health record and web and mobile apps that brought one person's imaging, labs, glucose, sleep and heart data together, turned it into risk models, and let patients and clinicians explore it with an LLM assistant.

    Infinia ML

    The bill

    ContractIQ reads payer contracts and works out what each claim should pay, so underpayments get caught and rates get negotiated with evidence.

    Writing

    The prototype was too small

    Starting simple is good advice. Starting small can be a trap, especially when your users are experts and the domain is dense. What building ContractIQ taught me about the difference.

    Off the clock

    Restoring a century home Recognized by the Durham Historic Preservation CommissionPhotography Wildlife from a trip to Africa0.53MTraining Pounds lifted in 12 weeks, logged set by set2026Hockey 2026 Stanley Cup champions

    Read the case studies, grab the CV, or get in touch.