Brendan John Frey FRSC was born on 29 August 1968 and is a Canadian computer scientist, entrepreneur, and engineer.
10 Facts About Brendan Frey
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Brendan Frey is Founder and CEO of Deep Genomics, Cofounder of the Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence and Professor of Engineering and Medicine at the University of Toronto.
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Brendan Frey studied computer engineering and physics at the University of Calgary and the University of Manitoba, and then studied neural networks and graphical models as a doctoral candidate at the University of Toronto under the supervision of Geoffrey Hinton.
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Brendan Frey was an invited participant of the Machine Learning program at the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences in Cambridge, UK and was a Beckman Fellow at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign.
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In 2001, Brendan Frey joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Toronto and was cross-appointed to the Department of Computer Science, the Banting and Best Department of Medical Research and the Terrence Donnelly Centre for Cellular and Biomolecular Research.
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Between 2001 and 2014, Brendan Frey consulted for several groups at Microsoft Research and acted as a member of its Technical Advisory Board.
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In 2002, a personal crisis led Brendan Frey to face the fact that there was a tragic gap between our ability to measure a patient's mutations and our ability to understand and treat the consequences.
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Brendan Frey's group pioneered much of the early work in the field and over the next 15 years published more papers in leading-edge journals than any other academic or industrial research lab.
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In 2015, Brendan Frey founded Deep Genomics, with the goal of building a company that can produce effective and safe genetic medicines more rapidly and with a higher rate of success than was previously possible.
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Brendan Frey has received 240 million dollars in funding to date from leading Bay Area investors, including the backers of SpaceX and Tesla.