June 5, 2:15-5:45pm
Location: Santa Clara II

Speaker for the Workshop on Entrepreneurship & Strategies for AI Startups

Dr. Utkan Demirci is a tenured professor at Stanford University School of Medicine and currently serves as the interim director and division chief at the Canary Center for Cancer Early Detection in the Department of Radiology. Prior to joining Stanford in 2014, he held the position of Associate Professor at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School at the Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology division. His research group is focused on the early detection of cancer and has made significant contributions to the development of microfluidic platforms and point-of-care technologies for sorting rare cells and exosomes. He was elected as a fellow of the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering in 2017. He has a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University, M.S. in Electrical Engineering and an M.S. in Management Science and Engineering. He has published over 200 peer-reviewed articles, 300 abstracts and proceedings, 24 book chapters and editorials, and seven edited books. Additionally, he holds over 25 patents, both granted and pending, and serves on the editorial board of various peer-reviewed journals. Dr. Demirci’s pioneering work in infertility has resulted in the creation of cutting-edge devices and platform. These innovations have undergone translation and approval by the FDA and CE, making them readily accessible to patients.