Daphne Koller — Digital Biology and the Next Epoch of Science

From teaching at Stanford to co-founding Coursera, insitro, and Engageli, Daphne Koller reflects on the importance of education, giving back, and cross-functional research.

Daphne Koller is the founder and CEO of insitro, a company using machine learning to rethink drug discovery and development. She is a MacArthur Fellowship recipient, member of the National Academy of Engineering, member of the American Academy of Arts and Science, and has been a Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Stanford University. In 2012, Daphne co-founded Coursera, one of the world's largest online education platforms. She is also a co-founder of Engageli, a digital platform designed to optimize student success.

https://www.insitro.com/

https://www.insitro.com/jobs

https://www.engageli.com/

https://www.coursera.org/

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https://www.linkedin.com/in/daphne-koller-4053a820/

Topics covered:

0:00​ Giving back and intro

2:10​ insitro's mission statement and Eroom's Law

3:21​ The drug discovery process and how ML helps

10:05​ Protein folding

15:48​ From 2004 to now, what's changed?

22:09​ On the availability of biology and vision datasets

26:17​ Cross-functional collaboration at insitro

28:18​ On teaching and founding Coursera

31:56​ The origins of Engageli

36:38​ Probabilistic graphic models

39:33​ Most underrated topic in ML

43:43​ Biggest day-to-day challenges

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