PSAI Evening Talks with Jean-Philippe VERT: Insights from Industry Innovators
PSAI Evening Talks: Insights from Industry Innovators, is a series of talks organized by the Paris School of AI (PSAI) for its graduate students with the aim of providing them with a unique opportunity to gain firsthand insights from leading professionals in the AI industry. Each session is intended to bridge the gap between academic learning and real-world applications, offering the students a chance to explore the cutting-edge developments and challenges faced by industry leaders. These evening talks will also serve as a platform for networking and professional growth.
Jean-Philippe Vert is Chief R&D Officer at Owkin, an AI Biotech company that uses AI to discover and develop treatments for unmet medical needs, co-founder and CEO at Bioptimus, a start-up building AI foundation models in biology, and professor (on leave) at PSL University Mines Paris. Before joining Owkin in 2022, he was a research scientist at Google Brain (2018-2022), a research professor at ENS Paris’ mathematics Department (2016-2018); a Fullbright and Miller visiting professor at UC Berkeley’s Department of Statistics (2015-2016); a research team leader at the Curie Institute’s research center (2008-2018); a research professor and founding director of Mines ParisTech’s Centre for Computational Biology (2002-2018); and a research associate at Kyoto University’s Bioinformatics Center (2001-2002). He graduated in applied mathematics from Ecole Polytechnique (1995) and received his PhD in mathematics from Paris University (2001). His research interest concerns the theory and practice of statistical machine learning and artificial intelligence to model complex, high-dimensional and structured data, and their applications in computational biology and medicine.