Speaker Profile
Ph.D., Director, Healthcare and Life Sciences Research; Global Science Leader, AI for Health, IBM
Biography
Jianying Hu is an IBM Fellow and Global Science Leader of AI for Healthcare at IBM. She is also Adjunct Professor of Medicine at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Dr. Hu joined IBM in 2003 after working at Bell Labs. She has over 30 years of experience conducting and leading research on machine learning, with recent focus on AI enabled acceleration of scientific discovery in health. Dr. Hu has served on many editorial and advisory boards, most recently on the NASEM Committee on Establishing a Framework for Emerging Science, Technology and Innovation in Health and Medicine, and the External Advisory Board of the NIH AIM-AHEAD Program. Dr. Hu is a fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics, International Academy of Health Sciences Informatics, IEEE, and the International Association of Pattern Recognition. She received the Asian American Engineer of the Year Award in 2013.
Session Abstract – PMWC 2025 Silicon Valley
Track Chair: Keith Yamamoto, UCSF
- PMWC 2025 Award Ceremony:
Pioneer Honoree: Robert Califf, FDA
Luminary Honoree: Ida Sim, UCSF
- Fireside Chat: Keith Yamamoto, UCSF, Robert Califf, FDA, and Kathy Giacomini, UCSF
- Keynote: Harnessing Computational Tools in Precision Medicine: Implementation and Future Directions
- Ida Sim, UCSF
- AI-driven Advances in Precision Medicine (PANEL)
Chair: Sharat Israni, Bakar Institute, UCSF
- Peter Norvig, Google
- Susan Lynch, UCSF
- Olivier Gevaert, Stanford
- Michelle Arkin, UCSF
- New Federal Programs Driving Transformative Health Breakthroughs (PANEL)
Chair: Keith Yamamoto, UCSF
- Charles Romine, NIST
- Erwin Gianchandani, NSF
- Jim Brase, Lawerence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) - AI-Driven Protein Design (PANEL)
Chair: Tanja Kortemme, UCSF
- Franziska Seeger, Genentech
- William Degrado, UCSF - AI and Ethical Challenges (PANEL)
Chair: Alex John London, Carnegie Mellon University
- Jianying Hu, IBM
- Cora Han, University of California Health
- Ida Sim, UCSF
