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Founder & CEO, Doogooda · Harvard PhD · Former faculty (Operations/Tech)

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Name Pronunciation

Lina Song — LEE-nah SONG

Title

Founder & CEO, Doogooda

One-liner

"Building auditable decision systems for hospital operations and public institutions"

Based in

Madison, WI (through mid-2026) · Seoul, KR

Time Zones

CT (UTC-6) primary · ET/PT available · KST for Asia-Pacific

Remote Setup

Professional mic (Shure MV7) · Ring light · Neutral background

Turnaround

Same-day for media · 3-5 days for speaking

Current angle

Decision scientist turned CEO, building operational decision systems (Entity Flow) for US hospitals while drawing on experience in Korea's universal healthcare system. Comparative Korea–US healthcare perspective.

Short (~50 words)

Lina Song is the Founder & CEO of Doogooda, building auditable decision systems that turn operational data into defensible actions for hospitals and public institutions. Her company operates Entity Flow (US hospital operations) and Entity Value (Korean institutional clients). She holds a Harvard PhD in Decision Science and Health Policy and previously held a faculty appointment in operations and technology.

Medium (~100 words)

Lina Song is the Founder & CEO of Doogooda, where she builds auditable decision systems that translate data into defensible actions under real constraints—capacity, staffing, budgets, and policy. Doogooda operates Entity Flow for US hospital operations and Entity Value for Korean government and institutional clients. Her approach combines causal reasoning, scenario simulation, and optimization as decision infrastructure that can be explained, stress-tested, and audited. A Harvard PhD in Decision Science and Health Policy, she previously held an academic appointment in operations and technology. Lina speaks and writes about decision-making under uncertainty, accountable AI in deployment, and why operations is fundamentally a governance problem.

Long (~200 words)

Lina Song is the Founder & CEO of Doogooda, a decision-intelligence company that builds auditable systems helping institutions make defensible choices under uncertainty. Rather than treating AI as prediction, she builds decision infrastructure: explicit assumptions, scenario simulation, constraint-aware optimization, and governance-ready outputs that teams can justify, execute, and audit. Doogooda operates two products—Entity Flow for US hospital operations and Entity Value for Korean government and institutional clients—both grounded in real operational constraints: capacity, staffing, budgets, and policy trade-offs. Currently based in Madison, WI through gener8tor's gBETA Healthcare accelerator, she is working directly with American hospitals on operational decision-making through Entity Flow, bridging what she built in Korea's universal healthcare system with the US market. A Harvard PhD in Decision Science and Health Policy with previous faculty experience in operations and technology, Lina speaks and writes about the practical meaning of "accountable AI," the politics of AI infrastructure, and why many operational problems are ultimately governance problems. Her core themes include trade-offs and incentives, decision quality under uncertainty, and designing systems that remain credible when stakes are high and accountability is non-negotiable.

Pre-packaged segments for TV, podcasts, and panels. Each includes talking points, suggested graphics, and a one-sheet.

Segment

Healthcare Affordability Crisis

Why healthcare costs keep rising—and what policy levers actually work.

Why Now

With healthcare costs hitting record highs and election-year debates intensifying, audiences want clarity on what's broken and what's fixable.

Key Points

  • The hidden decision systems that drive healthcare pricing
  • Why transparency laws haven't lowered costs (and what would)
  • Trade-offs policymakers face between access, quality, and cost

Why Me

My PhD research at Harvard used US Medicare claims data to study how hospital closures and physician-hospital integration actually affect care quality and costs. I've since built decision systems inside Korea's universal healthcare system through Entity Value, and am now working directly with US hospitals through Entity Flow. I bring both the research rigor and the operational experience to cut through the talking points.

Segment

AI Accountability Gap

When AI makes decisions, who's responsible when it goes wrong?

Why Now

Every AI incident makes headlines, but coverage focuses on the model. The real story is institutional accountability gaps.

Key Points

  • Why 'explainable AI' doesn't mean accountable AI
  • The governance structures institutions actually need
  • Real cases where AI accountability failed—and how to fix it

Why Me

I build AI decision systems for regulated healthcare operations at Doogooda—environments where "the model got it wrong" isn't an acceptable answer. Entity Flow produces auditable decision trails: documented assumptions, binding constraints, and explicit trade-offs. This isn't a framework I teach—it's infrastructure I ship, tested in hospital settings where accountability is non-negotiable.

Segment

Elections as Decision Systems

Cutting through election narratives with decision-systems thinking.

Why Now

Every election cycle floods with causal claims that lack rigor. Audiences deserve frameworks to evaluate what's real.

Key Points

  • How to separate causal claims from post-hoc narratives
  • The constraints and trade-offs candidates actually face
  • Why most 'what won the election' takes are unfalsifiable

Why Me

I've applied decision-systems frameworks to real political campaigns and policy advisory work in Korea, and my academic training is in causal inference and decision science under uncertainty. I bring a cross-institutional lens—having worked inside both Korean and American policy contexts—and the methodological rigor to distinguish signal from narrative.

Decision-making under uncertainty

Trade-offs, governance, and how to structure choices when outcomes are unknowable

Insights

Auditable AI in real institutions

Assumptions, accountability, and what organizations actually need from AI systems

K Metaverse News

Healthcare operations as policy-native decision intelligence

Why clinical decisions are governance problems, not just analytics problems

Insights

Emerging Topics

Elections as decision systems

Uncertainty, causal claims, and governance frameworks for electoral and policy interpretation

US–Korea institutional comparison

What transfers, what doesn't, and why context matters for policy

From dashboards to decisions

How to operationalize 'what to do' instead of 'what happened'

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For ongoing analysis and frameworks:

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Available Talks

  • Decision Architecture for Uncertain Times
  • Auditable AI: Beyond Explainability
  • Elections as Decision Systems
  • Healthcare Operations: From Analytics to Actions
  • Building Accountable AI for Regulated Institutions

Decision Architecture for Uncertain Times

A framework for structuring organizational decisions when predictions fail. Covers trade-off mapping, assumption documentation, and governance design.

Key Takeaways

  • How to map trade-offs before they become crises
  • A template for documenting assumptions that change
  • Governance design that survives uncertainty
Audience: Leadership teams, policy makers, healthcare executives Duration: 45-60 min

Auditable AI: Beyond Explainability

What institutions actually need from AI systems, and why current approaches fall short. A practical framework for accountability.

Key Takeaways

  • Why explainability theater fails in regulated contexts
  • The decision trail: what to document and why
  • Accountability frameworks that work across stakeholders
Audience: Technology leaders, governance professionals, regulators Duration: 30-45 min

Speaking & Presentations

Industry & Media

AI·Drone Conference 2024 — Keynote on AI accountability (2025)
DSK 2025 / Drone Show Korea — Doogooda exhibition (2025)
K Metaverse News — AI governance feature (2025)
Doctors in Business Journal — Founder profile (2025)

Academic Conferences

INFORMS Annual Meeting (2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021)
INFORMS Healthcare Conference (2019, 2021)
MSOM — Manufacturing & Service Operations Management (2018, 2021)
POMS — Production and Operations Management Society (2019, 2021, 2022)
AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting (2016, 2018, 2019, 2020)
IFORS — International Federation of Operational Research Societies (2021)
iHEA — International Health Economics Association (2017)
SMDM — Society for Medical Decision Making (2016) — Lee B. Lusted Award Finalist
Electronic Health Economics Colloquium (2020)
European TOM Seminar (2020)
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