When Kevin Joo looks at available data in the world, he recognizes the growing volume that’s available, and how that’s helped society. Yet most of that data is owned by the few companies that provide it, which leads to compromises on privacy and other issues. Additionally, the data that might be necessary to build an effective computational tool may not be available.
Along with fellow Johns Hopkins grad David Shi, Joo founded a startup creating a decentralized network to address those tradeoffs.
“We built Atana to allow everyone to harness power of data without compromising their basic privacy rights,” Joo said.
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