Mark DePristo

Mark is a leader in applying computational and statistical techniques to biomedical challenges in genomics and biochemistry. Before BigHat, he founded the Genomics team in Google Brain, was VP of Informatics at SynapDx, and was Co-Director of Medical and Population Genetics at the Broad Institute. He has a BA in CS and Math from Northwestern, a PhD in Biochemistry from Cambridge as a Marshall Scholar, and was a Damon Runyon Cancer Research Fellow at Harvard. Dr. DePristo's academic articles are widely published with more than 72,000 citations.