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Awards & Recognition

★MacArthur Foundation Fellowship (2004)

★ACM Prize in Computing (2008)

★Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers

★National Academy of Sciences member (2023)

★National Academy of Engineering member (2011)

★ACM AAAI Allen Newell Award (2019)

★AnitaB.org Technical Leadership Abie Award (2022)

Notable Facts

→CEO and Founder of insitro, machine learning-driven drug discovery company

→Co-founder and former co-CEO of Coursera, serving 100+ million learners

→Former Stanford professor (18 years) and first machine learning hire

→Over 300 publications with h-index of 150+, cited by 122,473+

→Former Chief Computing Officer at Calico (Alphabet)

→Co-founder of Engageli digital learning platform

→PhD from Stanford at 25, completed bachelor's at Hebrew University at 17

→26.2K Twitter followers, 500+ LinkedIn connections

→Speaking fees $30,000-$50,000 for live events

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