# Team

A bench of researchers and engineers drawn from leading labs, delivering state-of-the-art foundation models in medical imaging, language, genomics, and pathology.

We come from BMS, Genentech, AbbVie, Sanofi, Stanford, MIT, Yale, UCSD, MD Anderson, and Mount Sinai. Our published work runs from computational neuroscience to clinical foundation models and federated learning for drug development.

## People

- **Kevin Brown** — CEO & Cofounder
- **Arda Pekis** — CTO & Cofounder
- **Zekai Chen** — CSO & Cofounder
- **Julie Gerardi** — SVP and Head of BD & Strategy
- **David Laprade** — Founding Engineer
- **David Laub** — Founding Scientist
- **Irsyad Adam** — Founding Scientist
- **Brian Schilder** — AI Scientist
- **Ryan Shewcraft** — Head of Data Science

Standard Model Biomedicine is based in San Francisco, California, with offices in Philadelphia, PA and New York, NY.

## Related pages

- [About](https://standardmodel.bio/about.html)
- [Papers & research](https://standardmodel.bio/research.html)
- [Contact](https://standardmodel.bio/contact.html) — info@standardmodel.bio
- [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/standardmodel-bio/)

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