Stanford AI+Biomedicine Seminar
Weekly seminar on the intersection of AI, biology, and medicine.
Time: Tuesday 2:30pm-3:30pm
Location: Fortinet
Seminar Room (E160), Computing & Data Science Building (CoDa), Stanford University
Organizers
We thank Stanford Data Science Center for Biomedicine and Health for support!
Upcoming Talks
| Date | Speaker | Title | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 02/10/2026, 2:30PM | Bo Wang, Ph.D., SVP and Head of Biomedical AI at Xaira Therapeutics. Associate Professor at University of Toronto. | BioReason: Toward Biological Foundation Models That Reason |
Past Talks
| Date | Speaker | Title | Recording |
|---|---|---|---|
| 02/03/2026 | Mingze Dong, Ph.D. candidate, Yale University & Graduate Research Fellow, Arc Institute | Stack: In-context learning of single-cell biology | Not available |
| 01/20/2026 | Danila Bredikhin, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Scholar, Stanford University. Co-founder, scverse | Building scverse: an open-source ecosystem for single-cell multimodal omics | Not available |
| 01/13/2026 | Zinaida Good, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Stanford University School of Medicine. | Artificial intelligence systems to advance engineered T cell immunotherapy designs | Recording (Passcode: sq95eE+h) |
| 12/09/2025 | Ayush Noori, Rhodes Scholar, D.Phil. Student, University of Oxford, and visiting PhD student, Harvard Medical School. | Graph AI generates neurological hypotheses validated in molecular, organoid, and clinical systems | Recording (Passcode: ^%y94D^S) |
| 11/12/2025 | Theofanis Karaletsos, Head of AI for Science, CZI | Co-founder, achira.ai | Virtual Cells: From vision to first generative models of life from the CZI Science AI team | Not available |
| 11/04/2025 | Charlotte Bunne, Assistant Professor, EPFL | Virtual Patient Labs: AI Driven Simulation and Diagnostics for Precision Oncology | Recording (Passcode: UHi6a!A%) |
| 11/04/2025 | Hannes Stark, PhD student, MIT | BoltzGen: Toward Universal Binder Design | Recording (Passcode: NLfY.47.) |
| 08/26/2025 | Asad Aali, Research Scientist, Stanford | MedVAL: Expert-level validation of AI-generated medical text with scalable language models | Recording (Passcode: n=Yh88BW) |
| 08/19/2025 | Aadyot Bhatnagar, ML Scientist, Profluent | ProGen3: Scaling Unlocks Broader Generation and Deeper Functional Understanding of Proteins | Recording (Passcode: 3yHKtkJ+) |
| 08/12/2025 | Sam Rodriques, CEO, Future House | Automating Scientific Research with AI Agents | Recording (Passcode: d*$mD7x8) |
| 08/05/2025 | Avantika Lal, Principal ML Scientist, Genentech | Decoding sequence determinants of gene expression across cellular and disease states | Not available |
| 07/15/2025 | Niko McCarty, Founding Editor, Asimov Press | Biotech Writing in the AI Era | Recording |
| 07/22/2025 | Emma Dann, Postdoctoral fellow, Stanford University & Gladstone Institutes | Mapping gene effects on complex traits with human genetics, cell atlases and perturb-seq | Not available |
| 07/24/2025, 10AM | Yusuf Roohani, Group Lead, Machine Learning, Arc Institute | Building a Virtual Cell: An End-to-End AI Platform for Engineering Cell State | Recording |
| 05/20/2025 | Ron Boger, PhD student, UC Berkeley | Functional Protein Mining with Conformal Guarantees | Not available |
| 05/13/2025 | Adam Yala, Assistant Professor, UC Berkeley & UCSF | Towards Modeling Everything to Personalize Cancer Care | Not available |
| 05/06/2025 | Romain Lacombe, Graduate Student, Stanford University | Map, Model, Measure: AI for Biomolecules | Not available |
| 04/28/2025 | Patrick Hsu, Assistant Professor, UC Berkeley & Co-founder at Arc Institute | Bridging Biology and AI for Genome Design | Not available |
| 04/23/2025 | Hilary Finucane, Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School | Using protein modeling tools to inform rare variant association studies | Not available |
| 04/22/2025 | Ahmed Alaa, Assistant Professor, UC Berkeley & UCSF | Machine Learning-based Predictive Inference of Individual Treatment Effects | Recording |
| 04/08/2025 | Vivek Natarajan, Research Scientist, Google | Advancing science and medicine with AI physician-scientists | Not available |
| 03/25/2025 | Matthew Jones, PostDoc at Stanford | Tracing the spatiotemporal evolution of cancer | Not available |
| 03/18/2025 | Jacob Kimmel, Co-Founder & Head of Research at NewLimit | in silico design of reprogramming therapies | Not available |
| 03/11/2025 | Adam Green, Founder at Markov Bio | Through a Glass Darkly: Virtual Cells, Mechanistic Interpretability, and the Next Five Years | Recording |
| 03/10/2025 10AM at BMI 1021 | Eric Xing, President of Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence | Toward Next Generation AI Systems Beyond Lingual Intelligence | Recording |
| 03/04/2025 | Le Cong, Assistant Professor at Stanford | Old Friends & New Partners — Accelerating Genome Engineering and Genome-scale Perturbation with AI Agents | Recording |
| 02/25/2025 | Xiaojie Qiu, Assistant Professor at Stanford Genetics | Spatiotemporal modeling of molecular holograms | Recording |
| 02/21/2025 | Maria Brbic, Assistant Professor at EPFL | Generative AI for Unlocking the Complexity of Cells | Not available |
| 02/18/2025 | Le Song, CTO at GenBio.AI, Professor at MBZUAI | Towards AI-Driven Digital Organism: A System of Multiscale Foundation Models for Biology | Not available |
| 02/11/2025 | Ming Yang (Max) Lu, CSO at Modella AI | Multimodal foundation models and generative AI for computational pathology | Not available |
| 01/28/2025 | Bowen Liu, Investor at a16z | Building Revolutionary Ventures in AI + Bio | Recording |
| 01/21/2025 | Lei Xiong, PostDoc at Stanford | Decoding the Genome: Bridging Chromatin Accessibility and Transcription | Recording |
| 01/07/2025 | Hani Goodarzi, Core Investigator at Arc Institute | Deciphering the regulatory grammar encoded in RNA structure | Recording |
| 12/17/2024 | Leon Hetzel, PhD Student, Technical University Munich | Unified Guidance for Geometry-Conditioned Molecular Generation | Not Available |
| 11/19/2024 | Angela Pisco, Head of Computational Biology at Insitro | Can AI help us make better medicines? | Not Available |
| 11/12/2024 | Tommasso Biancalani, Sr Director & Head Of AI For Research Biology at Genentech | Machine Learning for Target Identification and Drug Discovery | Not Available |
| 11/05/2024 | Aaron Solomon, Computational Platform Architect at BigHat Biosciences | Building better antibodies through ML design and synthetic biology | Not Available |
| 10/29/2024 | Andrew White, Head of Science/Cofounder at Future House | Automating scientific discovery at scale | Not Available |
| 10/22/2024 | Amy Lu, PhD student at UC Berkeley | Tokenized and Continuous Embedding Compressions of Protein Sequence and Structure | Recording |
| 10/15/2024 | Subho Mukherjee, Co-Founder & Chief Scientific Officer at Hippocratic AI | Building the first Safety-focused Conversational AI for Healthcare | Recording |
| 10/08/2024 | Evan Feinberg & Maruan Al-Shedivat, CEO & Director of Machine Learning at Genesis Therapeutics | GEMS: Generative Modeling for Small Molecule Drug Discovery at Genesis | Not Available |
| 10/01/2024 | Matt McPartlon, Chai Discovery | Chai-1: Decoding the Molecular Interaction of Life | Recording |
| 09/17/2024 | Bryan He, Stanford | Development and deployment of Machine Learning in Medicine | Recording |
| 09/03/2024 | Romain Lopez, Genentech & Stanford & NYU | Cross-modality Matching and Prediction of Perturbation Responses with Labeled Gromov-Wasserstein Optimal Transport | Recording |
| 08/20/2024 | Hannes Stark & Bowen Jing, MIT | Generative models for biomolecular prediction, dynamics, and design | Recording |
| 08/06/2024 | Nate Bennett, Co-founder at Xaira Therapeutics | De Novo Antibody Design with RFAntibody | Recording |
| 07/23/2024 | Jeff Ruffolo, Profluent | OpenCRISPR: Design of highly functional genome editors by modeling the universe of CRISPR-Cas sequences | Recording |
| 07/16/2024 | Zoe Piran, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Decoding cellular identities from single-cell data | Recording |
| 07/09/2024 | Thomas Hayes, EvolutionaryScale | ESM3: Simulating 500 million years of evolution with a language model | Recording |
| 06/25/2024 | Johannes Linder, Calico Labs | Borzoi: Predicting RNA-seq coverage from DNA sequence as a unifying model of gene regulation | Recording |
