S. Joshua Swamidass

Josh is both a physician and a scientist, appointed as an Assistant Professor at the Washington University School of Medicine, where he is focused on using machine learning and predictive modeling to discover new medicines and new uses for existing medicines. He brings PotentiaMetrics specific expertise in solving medical problems with purpose-designed machine learning and modeling methods. This builds from his medical training and his Ph.D.training in Computer and Information Sciences at the University of California, Irvine. He is one of the few computationally trained physicians in the country. His collaborators and consulting engagements have included the Broad Institute of Harvard/MIT, Pfizer, Glaxo-Smith-Kline, and Janssen Pharmaceuticals (a subsidiary of Johnson and Johnson).