IBIIS-AIMI Seminar: Francisco Gimenez, PhD

A Venture Capital Perspective on Translating AI in Imaging to Industry

There is undeniable innovation occurring in imaging brought forth by advances in AI. Despite all of this innovation being touted over the past two decades, and certainly since the advent of AlexNet in 2012, we've seen relatively little adoption in clinical workflows. Here I'm discussing some of the incentives in venture capital and noval startups as they pertain to imaging as well as opportunities and groundwork that needs to be laid to actually make sure that this innovation comes forth into clinical and broadly life sciences workflows.

Speaker Bio:

Francisco Gimenez is a Partner on the investment team at 8VC. He focuses on Bio-IT, Health-IT, and Enterprise AI investments. 

Francisco previously was the Resident Data Scientist at Formation8 Partners where he worked with portfolio companies to strategize, prototype, and recruit for data products. He was the founder of Catenus Science, a data science consulting and recruiting firm that used an apprenticeship model to help early stage companies build data science teams.

Francisco received his Ph.D. from Stanford in Biomedical Informatics, where he was a Ruth L. Kirchstein Fellow. His research focused on clinical decision support for Radiology which won him the Martin Epstein award for best paper at the American Medical Informatics Association in 2014. He was the commencement speaker for the Stanford School of Medicine in 2015.

Prior to that he got his B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences from UC Berkeley while doing research in Parkinson’s disease at UCSF.