Angela Lai is a computer scientist, with decades of experience building complex computing infrastructure and machine-learning platforms at a global scale, including for regulated industries such as health science and financial systems. In 2019, Angela founded BetterOmics to provide the best machine-learning platform for data analysis in life sciences. Angela was previously CTO of GRAIL, where she led the software and bioinformatics team to amass the largest clinical trial data set in oncology and create a machine-learning platform with bespoke algorithms to detect cancer signals within tumor-derived cell-free nucleic acids in the blood.
Prior to her life science endeavors, Angela spent over a decade at Google, where she was VP of Engineering. The systems she built operated the $100B+ business, with innovative products and algorithms in Search and Advertising.