Benjamin Yu
Head of Platform
Benjamin Yu, MD, PhD is a physician-scientist, technology executive, and entrepreneur who has helped build durable businesses from idea stage to multimillion-dollar scale. At companies including Interpreta and Humetrix, he worked alongside founders, engineers, clinicians, and operators on data-intensive products spanning population-scale machine learning, generative AI, mobile platforms, data architecture, algorithms, customer deployment, and company operations.
Background
Ben obtained his M.D., Ph.D. from Washington University in St. Louis. In his academic career, he developed cutting-edge research programs from the ground up at UC San Diego, secured funding from the Gates Foundation, NIH, CIRM, and others, helped build exceptional multidisciplinary teams, and led stem research programs from inception through execution.