Session Abstract – PMWC 2026 Silicon Valley
Track Chair:
Christina Curtis, Stanford
- TBA
Speaker Profile
Biography
James an Associate Professor of Biomedical Data Science and, by courtesy, of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at Stanford University. James works on making AImore reliable, human-compatible and statistically rigorous, and am especially interested in applications in human disease and health. James received his Ph.D from Harvard in 2014, and was at one time a member of Microsoft Research, a Gates Scholar at Cambridge and a Simons fellow at U.C. Berkeley. James joined Stanford in 2016 and am excited to also be a Chan-Zuckerberg Investigator. We are also a part of the Stanford AI Lab. His research is supported by two Chan-Zuckerberg Biohub Investigator Awards, the Sloan Fellowship, the NSF CAREER Award, a Top Ten Clinical Achievement Award and faculty awards from Google, Adobe and Amazon.
Speaker Profile
Biography
Professor Joakim Lundeberg works at the Department of Gene Technology, part of the School of Engineering Sciences in Chemistry, Biotechnology, and Health, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, and has competence in molecular technology development, in the fields of spatial omics with applications in both medicine and environment. Applications cover, for example, cancer, neurology and human development. His research group has been located since May 2010 at the Science for Life Laboratory (SciLifeLab). Prof Lundeberg previously headed the National Genomics Infrastructure (NGI) platform, one of the major academic sequencing sites in Europe.Lundeberg has over 15 patent and patent applications and has established several spin-off companies based on his research.