Ask-Me-Anything With Brian Ellerman and Special Guest Dr. Abraham Heifets

When: March 17, 2021 10:00am to 11:00am
AMA with Brian Ellerman & Special Guest Dr. Abraham Heifets, CEO, Atomwise. March 17, 10:00 AM (AZ).

Join us for this month's AMA with FORGE Founding Director Brian Ellerman and special guest Abraham Heifets!

Abe is the co-founder and CEO of San Francisco-based Atomwise, which uses artificial intelligence to help discover new medicine.

Abe was also a Massey Fellow at the University of Toronto and the Ontario Brain Institute, where his doctoral work used machine learning to help plan organic syntheses, a long-standing challenge in chemistry.  Previously, he researched high-performance data processing at IBM’s Thomas J. Watson Research Center and contributed to the artificial intelligence system of the world champion robotic soccer team at Cornell University, from which he holds two previous degrees. Abe has presented his work at the National Institutes of Health, the American Chemical Society, and the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence. He is an author on 19 papers, patents, and patent applications. He was also named Time Magazine's Person of the Year in 2006. It’s true!

Per PitchBook, Atomwise has raised over $174 million to date, including a $123 million Series B in August of last year. A graduate of the Y Combinator W15 batch (which included other good guys Notable Labs), Atomwise counts such legendary investors as Khosla, Draper, Dolby, B Capital, Tencent, and Baidu.

Brian will kick things off with ‘fireside chat’ and then open it up for your questions.


Audience: All

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Campus: Virtual

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United States
US

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Contacts

Anna Darian

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