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Amin Karbasi
Adjunct Professor, Management Science and Engineering
BioAn academic entrepreneur, Amin Karbasi is a Senior Director at Cisco Foundation AI, an adjunct professor at Stanford, and serves on the scientific board of the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing. Previously, he served as Chief Scientist at Robust Intelligence (acquired by Cisco in 2024). Before that, he was a professor at Yale University and a research staff scientist at Google. He has received the National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award, Office of Naval Research (ONR) Young Investigator Award, Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) Young Investigator Award, DARPA Young Faculty Award, National Academy of Engineering Grainger Award, Amazon Research Award, Nokia Bell-Labs Award, Google Faculty Research Award, Microsoft Azure Research Award, Yale innovation award, Simons Research Fellowship, and ETH Research Fellowship. His work has also been recognized with paper awards from Graphs in Biomedical Image Analysis (GRAIL), Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Interventions Conference (MICCAI), International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS), IEEE ComSoc Data Storage, International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), ACM SIGMETRICS, and IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT). His Ph.D. thesis received the Patrick Denantes Memorial Prize from the School of Computer and Communication Sciences at EPFL, Switzerland.
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Amit Kaushal
Adjunct Professor, Bioengineering
Casual - Non-Exempt, Continuing StudiesBioAmit Kaushal, MD, PhD is Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine (Stanford-VA) and Adjunct Professor of Bioengineering at Stanford University. Dr. Kaushal's work spans clinical medicine, teaching, research, and industry.
He helped launch Stanford School of Engineering's undergraduate major in Biomedical Computation (bmc.stanford.edu) and has served as long-time director of the major. The major has graduated over 70 students since inception and was recently featured in Nature (https://go.nature.com/2P2UnRu).
His research interests are in utilizing health data in novel and ethical ways to improve the practice of medicine. He is a faculty executive member of Stanford's Partnership for AI-Assisted Care (aicare.stanford.edu). Recently, he has also been working with public health agencies to improve scale and speed of contact tracing for COVID-19.
He has previously held executive and advisory roles at startups working at the interface of technology and healthcare.
He continues to practice as an academic hospitalist.
Dr. Kaushal completed his BS (Biomedical Computation), MD, PhD (Biomedical Informatics), and residency training at Stanford. He is board-certified in Internal Medicine and Clinical Informatics.
