Keynote Speaker: Matt Rasmussen

Matt Rasmussen, Ph.D.
Vice President of Software Engineering
Insitro

Matt Rasmussen, Ph.D., serves as the vice president of software engineering at Insitro, a machine learning-driven drug discovery and development company, where his team develops data pipelines and infrastructure for machine learning and high-throughput biology to transform the way medicines are created. Previously, as the vice president of engineering for Myriad Genetics, Rasmussen led engineering teams focused on software automation and genomic data pipelines to make high complexity genetic testing routine in clinical practice. During his time at Counsyl, he developed and scaled the software behind several successful prenatal genetic testing products.

In 2010, Rasmussen earned his Ph.D. in computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he developed efficient bioinformatic algorithms with applications in evolutionary genomics and population genetics.