Jim Karkanias

Jim Karkanias brings over 30 years of experience.

Jim is experienced in science (neuroscience), engineering (bioengineering, code development), technology (neural nets, machine learning, robotics) and business (founder of a software startup and then head of clinical operations for the human health division at Merck). He has held the role of Partner at Microsoft for the past decade, leading program management for information management and machine learning in the Cloud + Enterprise Division. As Senior Director of data sciences at CZ Biohub, and in collaboration with partners at Berkeley, Stanford, UCSF and the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative. Jim aims to build a world-class data science team to help drive and support advances in bioinformatics, computational biology, image processing and next generation analytics.

Jim holds a Ph.D. in bioengineering from Drexel University, Master of Science from Drexel University and Bachelor of Science from Rutgers University.