Luca Foschini
AI in Health researcher, entrepreneur, and investor. Co-founder of Evidation. President of Sage Bionetworks.
AI in Health researcher, entrepreneur, and investor. Co-founder of Evidation. President of Sage Bionetworks.
I'm the President of Sage Bionetworks, a nonprofit that builds platforms, standards, and governance models to make biomedical data easier to share and reuse. Before that, I co-founded Evidation, where over ten years as Chief Data Scientist my team of 50+ health data scientists pioneered machine learning models for disease prevention and prediction from everyday wearable and sensor data. Evidation grew to a $1B+ valuation, served better health outcomes to 5M+ Americans, and partnered with many major pharmaceutical companies. I actively angel invest in early-stage health tech companies.
My research spans AI, digital medicine, and open data, with 70+ peer-reviewed papers in Nature Medicine, Science Translational Medicine, JAMA Network Open, The Lancet Digital Health, and others, plus several US patents in health AI. I've been invited to present at the FDA Science Forum, the Italian Parliament, and the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. I serve as faculty at Harvard Medical School's executive education program on AI in healthcare.
I received my PhD in Computer Science from UC Santa Barbara (Distinguished Alumni 2023) and a Master's in Cybersecurity from the Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies in Pisa, and held research positions at Ask.com and Google. I am a retired competitive programmer, first representing then helping coach the Italian team at the International Olympiad in Informatics.
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70+ peer-reviewed papers · Full list on Google Scholar
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