Asim Iqbal
Founder & CEO at Weill Cornell Medicine
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolAsim Iqbal is a founder and CEO with a decade of experience at the intersection of machine learning and neuro healthtech, currently building Tibbling Technologies to deliver NeuroAI multimodal intelligence. He combines deep academic roots—MS/PhD work at ETH Zürich and a postdoc at EPFL—with industry stints from Google X’s NeuroMoonshot to leadership roles in startups and therapeutics. As an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Weill Cornell Medicine, he bridges cutting-edge research and translational applications in neurodegeneration and brain-inspired AI. His hands-on background includes deploying scalable deep learning for 3D brain imaging, AlphaFold-driven drug discovery, and building VAE-based multimodal embeddings. Not obvious from the title: he has repeatedly moved between academia and industry to operationalize research into products and platforms, including co-founding Wizlabs AI and leading ML efforts at Cajal Therapeutics. Based in Seattle, he focuses on turning complex neuroscience data into actionable medical and ML solutions.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Postdoctorate, Machine Learning, Postdoctorate, Machine Learning at EPFLMS-PhD, Machine Learning | Neuroinformatics, MS-PhD, Machine Learning | Neuroinformatics at ETH Zürich
Github Skills (16)
throughput10
pytorch10
atlas10
neurons10
jupyter9
ipython9
deep-learning9
notebook9
python8
machine-learning7
tensorflow6
data-science6
modeling4
visualization3
fourier-transform1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
itsasimiqbal/DeNeRD
May 2019 - Feb 2022
High-throughput Detection of Neurons for Brain-wide analysis with Deep Learning
Contributions:57 commits, 3 PRs, 51 pushes in 2 years 9 months
pytorchbraindeep-learningneuronshigh-throughput
itsasimiqbal/itsasimiqbal.github.io
Jul 2019 - Dec 2022
Contributions:445 commits, 426 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 5 months
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.