The Data & AI Chief · 2026-04-08 · 41 min
Discover how WHOOP is building an AI-powered health data infrastructure that is redefining how we understand human health. Emily Capodilupo, Senior Vice President of Research, Algorithms, and Data at WHOOP, explains how continuous physiological data is uncovering new opportunities in predictive health through AI, from presymptomatic disease detection to biological age scoring. She examines the governance challenges of deploying AI in a regulated environment and what it takes to build the data trust required to make it work at scale. Key Moments: How WHOOP Built Its AI and Data Foundation (00:57): Emily explains how WHOOP's early focus on elite athlete performance shaped the data collection rigor and multidisciplinary science organization that now powers its predictive health capabilities. She outlines the model she built across AI, machine learning, clinical research, and digital signal processing, and why starting with the highest-demand use case created a data foundation built to scale. The Power of Continuous Data (06:21): Emily draws on WHOOP's sleep research to show how continuous physiological data reveals patterns that would be invisible without longitudinal tracking.
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