Pharma CEO Series: An Evening with Daphne Koller, Ph.D., CEO, and Founder of insitro
Fireside Chat
Daphne Koller is the CEO and Founder of insitro, a startup company that aims to rethink drug development using machine learning. She was also the Co-Chair of the Board and Co-Founder of Coursera, the largest platform for massive open online courses (MOOCs). Daphne was the Rajeev Motwani Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University, where she served on the faculty for 18 years. She has also been the Chief Computing Officer of Calico, an Alphabet company in the healthcare space. She is the author of over 200-refereed publications appearing in venues such as Science, Cell, and Nature Genetics. Daphne was recognized as one of TIME Magazine’s 100 most influential people in 2012 and Newsweek’s 10 most important people in 2010. She has been honored with multiple awards and fellowships during her career including the Sloan Foundation Faculty Fellowship in 1996, the ONR Young Investigator Award in 1998, the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) in 1999, the IJCAI Computers and Thought Award in 2001, the MacArthur Foundation Fellowship in 2004, and the ACM Prize in Computing in 2008. Daphne was inducted into the National Academy of Engineering in 2011 and elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2014 and of the International Society of Computational Biology in 2017. Her teaching was recognized via the Stanford Medal for Excellence in Fostering Undergraduate Research, and as a Bass University Fellow in Undergraduate Education
October 16, 2019
6:30 - 8:30 PM
$25 HCSF members
$45 Non-members
Hors d'oeuvre and wine will be served.
Gibson and Dunn Law Firm
555 Mission Street
Suite 3000
San Francisco, CA 94105
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Registration and refund deadline: October 14
Event Organizer
Anupam Agarwal, MPH ‘05
anupam_agarwal@post.harvard.edu