Speaker Profile
Ph.D., Founder & CEO,
Biography
Fengbo Ren is the founder of Fovus, the worlds first AI-powered, serverless high-performance computing platform built for computational biology, drug discovery, and AI-driven scientific research. Fovus enables teams to achieve over 100x faster time-to-insight and 8085% lower cloud costs for workloads such as Nextflow RNA-seq pipelines, large-scale molecular dynamics simulations, and protein structure prediction models.As part of the Amazon Web Services Global Startup Program, Fovus works closely with AWS to help scientists run genomics, multi-omics, cheminformatics, and structural biology pipelines at scalewithout managing clusters, infrastructure, or manual optimization.Fengbo brings a practitioner-driven perspective on how AI-powered orchestration can transform HPC into a simple, scalable, and cost-efficient platform for modern scientific RD.
Talk
AI-Powered Serverless HPC for Scientific Discovery
AI-powered, serverless HPC from Fovus delivers over 100x faster time-to-insight and 8085% lower cloud costs for cheminformatics and bioinformatics. The session highlights scaling Nextflow RNA-seq pipelines, GROMACS molecular dynamics, and Boltz protein models on AWSwithout infrastructure managementenabling faster experimentation and scalable scientific computing.
Session Abstract – PMWC 2026 Silicon Valley
Track Chair:
Sharat Israni, UCSF
PMWC Award Ceremony
• Regina Barzilay, MIT
• Joe Petro, Microsoft
• Curtis P. Langlotz, Stanford University
Keynote: The Future of AI in Medical Imaging
• Curtis P. Langlotz, Stanford University
From Foundation Models to Digital Twins: AI Reshaping Clinical Imaging
• Chair: Alexander Weir, Canon Medical
• Regina Barzilay, MIT
• Joe Petro, Microsoft
• Curtis P. Langlotz, Stanford University
Fireside Chat
• Eric Horvitz, Microsoft
• Curtis P. Langlotz, Stanford University
Building Biological Digital Twins: Computational Models Linking Data to Disease Mechanisms
• Martin Stumpe, Danaher
Core AI Methods for Precision Medicine Foundations
• Chair: Sharat Israni, UCSF
• James Zou, Stanford University
• Regina Barzilay, MIT
• Olivier Gevaert, Stanford University
AI & Omics Foundation Models Powering Translational Research
• Chair: Janusz Dutkowski, Data4Cure
• Alex Moreau, Champions Oncology
• Jadwiga Bienkowska, Pfizer
Radiomics & Radiogenomics: Precision Imaging for Oncology
• Chair: Chris Hare, Canon Medical
• Ángel Alberich-Bayarri, Quibim
• Kevin Blyth, University of Glasgow
• Maria del Mar Alvarez Torres, Columbia University
Clinical Workflow Integration & Decision Support in Imaging
• Chair: Sharat Israni, UCSF
• David S. Liebeskind, UCLA
• Rajesh Shah, UCSF
• Roxana Daneshjou, Stanford University
