DERI/NEMIC Seminar with Ignacio Perez Pozuelo, Team Lead at Palantir Technologies
When: Thursday, November 17, 2022, 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Where: zoom
Speaker: Ignacio Perez-Pozuelo from Palantir Technologies
Do join us at the later time of 3pm we are delighted to welcome Ignacio Perez-Pozuelo from Palantir Technologies who will be presenting our DERI/NEMIC Seminar.
Title: Powering data-driven decisions to improve patient outcomes
Zoom link: https://qmul-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/81148100921
Abstract: Through this talk, titled Powering data-driven decisions to improve patient outcomes – we’ll be covering some of Palantir’s work in Healthcare and Life Sciences, with a particular focus on Biomedical R&D. Further, we’ll be providing a short live demonstration of the platform Palantir Foundry.
Bio: Ignacio leads Palantir’s work in Healthcare and Life Sciences working with a variety of organizations, ranging from governments, large pharmaceutical institutions, value-based care providers or discovery-stage biotechnology companies. Palantir was built to solve the world’s most difficult problems with truly best-in-class, cutting-edge technology. Its software is currently deployed in more than 50 industries and powers decisions in some of the most complex data environments in the world. At Palantir, Ignacio has worked on some of the current world’s most pressing problems from equitable vaccine distribution to tackling supply chain issues or the energy crisis. Before his time at Palantir, he worked as a strategy consultant and at Medtronic and was a fellow at The Alan Turing Institute. He is an advisor to Life Extension Ventures, a venture fund focused on longevity for people and planet, backing entrepreneurs who are accelerating the science around longevity.
Ignacio holds a PhD at the intersection of Medical Science and Computer Science from Cambridge University (UK), a masters in Bioengineering from the University of California at Berkeley and the University of California San Francisco (USA), a masters in Neuroscience from Oxford University (UK) and received his undergraduate degree in Engineering from Brown University (USA).