---
title: "Vasant Kearney"
category: "people"
role: "CEO and Founder"
company: "Onlay"
linkedin: "https://www.linkedin.com/in/vasant-kearney-7b7a48b3"
twitter: "https://x.com/vasantkearney"
website: "https://onlay.ai/"
sourceLabels: ["Official speaker roster", "Official conference schedule"]
---
# Vasant Kearney

## Profile
CEO and Founder at [[onlay|Onlay]].

- [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/vasant-kearney-7b7a48b3)
- [X / Twitter](https://x.com/vasantkearney)
- [Website](https://onlay.ai/)

## Biography
Vasant Kearney is founder and CEO of [[onlay|Onlay]] AI, where he builds agentic healthcare revenue-cycle infrastructure across claims, eligibility, attachments, payer follow-up, payment posting, and bank reconciliation.

He was previously co-founder and CTO of Retrace, an AI company focused on healthcare automation. Before startups, Vasant was an Assistant Professor of Radiation Oncology Physics at UCSF, completed a medical physics residency there, and earned a PhD in Biomedical Engineering. He mentored radiation oncology residents at UCSF and machine learning students at the University of San Francisco. His scientific work spans a broad range of topics, including generative MRI-to-CT translation, tumor localization, anatomy segmentation, treatment-planning optimization, NVIDIA CUDA programming, and dental disease classification.

His work sits at the intersection of healthcare operations, regulated workflows, multimodal AI, and production agent systems.

## Conference Sessions
- [[2026-07-01-vasant-kearney-healthcare-s-agent-bytecode-x12-as-the-harness-for-ai-agents]] — Healthcare’s Agent Bytecode: X12 as the Harness for AI Agents (2026-07-01, 1:55pm-2:15pm)

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### Linked Sessions
- [[2026-07-01-vasant-kearney-healthcare-s-agent-bytecode-x12-as-the-harness-for-ai-agents|Healthcare’s Agent Bytecode: X12 as the Harness for AI Agents]]

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