On the TechTO stage ×1
First seen on the TechTO stage in 2018. Every talk is searchable — ask the archive about Oren ↗
In their words
we became the first group to really applied deep learning to that problem and we were greatly successful the work was well received academically even appeared on some Journal covers
even though some ideas really take off academically they don't really translate into industry so well so the next step was really to validate with the real customers and real people in industry
Around the web ×1
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What is Oren Kraus known for?
Co-founding Phenomic AI, the Toronto biotech that uses deep learning on cell images to find drug targets in the tumour stroma. He was among the first researchers to apply deep learning to microscopy.
What is Oren Kraus doing now?
He leads machine learning work at Recursion, developing foundation models for cell imaging and gene expression data and 3D molecular modelling, and remains a co-founder of Phenomic AI.
What did Oren Kraus speak about at TechTO?
'Taking the Dive', an August 2018 talk on the steps he took deciding to leave his job and go full-time on his own company.