Sergei Yakneen

Dr. Sergei Yakneen is an accomplished leader, technologist, and scientific researcher who brings a wealth of experience in financial technology, e-commerce, and cancer research. He joined SOPHiA GENETICS in September of 2019 after most recently working at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory in Heidelberg, Germany. He graduated from the University of Toronto with a degree in Computer Science and Mathematics and completed his PhD in Genomics and Computer Science at Heidelberg University. Over the past 15 years he’s led the Product Development and Professional Services groups of fin-tech startups, and launched Amazon.com’s first Software Engineering organization in the Toronto area. He led the technical working group of the world’s largest international cancer genome analysis project, the Pan Cancer Analysis of Whole Genomes, and devised new methods for analysis of genomic data at scale. Since 2013 Sergei has been focused on bringing the power of large-scale distributed computing to bear down on some of the hardest problems in cancer research.