From the Innovator's Workbench featuring Joëlle Barral, PhD

Schedule

Mon Jan 26 2026 at 06:00 pm to 07:00 pm

UTC-08:00

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Li Ka Shing Learning and Knowledge Center | Stanford, CA

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About this Event

Joëlle Barral considers artificial intelligence “a formidable ally for science.” She is a passionate technologist whose ultimate objective is to build tools that solve fundamental biological problems in order to improve patient outcomes.

Following her time at Stanford as an electrical engineering PhD student, and then, as a Biodesign Innovation Fellow, Joëlle has been on the ground floor of multiple initiatives applying AI within healthcare: from medical imaging to digital pathology to AI-augmented surgical robotics. Now, at Google DeepMind (GDM), she oversees a diverse portfolio of foundational research efforts with teams of engineers and researchers spread across Europe and North America, and leads GDM’s work in healthcare.

On January 26, join us to hear more about Joëlle’s innovation journey: the most impactful learnings, the highs and the lows, the challenges of working in AI, and what excites her most about its transformational potential in healthcare.

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About the series:
Stanford Biodesign launched "From the Innovator’s Workbench" speaker series in 2003 to enable the Stanford Biodesign community and the public to learn from the greatest health technology innovators of our time. Each event features an individual or a panel of health technology leaders being interviewed about their innovation process, insights, and perspectives on the changing healthcare landscape. The Innovator's Workbench events are currently sponsored by Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati.

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Li Ka Shing Learning and Knowledge Center, 291 Campus Drive, Stanford, United States

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