Cyril Zakka
Palo Alto, California, United States
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Top SchoolCyril Zakka is a physician-turned-AI leader who builds clinical and surgical AI systems, combining an MD from the American University of Beirut with postdoctoral research in artificial intelligence at Stanford. He founded the region’s first Artificial Intelligence in Medicine program, redesigned medical curricula to include ML, and has translated that academic work into industry leadership roles at Hugging Face and now as CEO of Almanac Health. His research focuses on autonomous surgical robots and cardiac imaging, reflecting a rare blend of operating-room experience and hands-on ML research. Based in Palo Alto with 11 years of cross-disciplinary experience, he is equally comfortable raising lab hardware funds and shipping production-ready health AI products. An active contributor in health-focused ML circles (notably on Hugging Face), he brings both clinical credibility and practical engineering discipline to healthcare innovation.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Biology, General, Bachelor of Science - BS, Biology, General at Boston CollegeDoctor of Medicine - MD, Doctor of Medicine - MD at American University of BeirutPostdoctoral Research Fellow, Artificial Intelligence, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Artificial Intelligence at Stanford University
English, French, Spanish, Arabic
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (200)
datasets10
chat10
jsqmessagesviewcontroller10
labeling10
pattern10
jtapplecalendar10
object-detection10
computer-vision10
nlp10
multiclass-classification10
semantic-segmentation10
viewcontroller10
image-labeling10
messaging10
python10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
hinafirdaus/HealthKit-ML
Nov 2017 - Mar 2018
Contributions:50 commits in 3 months
gaphealthcaremachine-learning
cyrilzakka/stylegan2-tpu
May 2020 - Mar 2021
StyleGAN2 but rewritten for TPUs.
Contributions:22 commits, 6 PRs, 21 pushes in 10 months
pytorchstyleganrewrittencycleganimage-synthesis
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