Dan Neil
Chief Technology Officer at Formation Bio
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDan Neil is a CTO and executive leader who builds AI-native R&D platforms that accelerate drug discovery, guiding teams from target selection through CMC. With a PhD in machine learning from ETH Zurich and a BS in biomedical computation from Stanford, he combines deep academic pedigree—50+ publications and patents cited over 5,800 times—with pragmatic product and engineering leadership across BenevolentAI, Tessera, and Formation Bio. He has repeatedly scaled multidisciplinary teams and production ML systems in translational biotech, moving research ideas into regulated development pipelines. Early hands-on hardware and firmware work (e.g., Neurogrid prototypes and custom neuroaccelerator designs) gives him uncommon fluency across silicon, software, and genomics stacks. Known for bridging academic rigor and operational delivery, he focuses on measurable impact rather than models for their own sake. Based in the United States, he brings over a decade of cross-disciplinary experience at the convergence of biology and computation.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Machine Learning, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Machine Learning at ETH ZürichBachelor of Science Engineering - Biomedical Computation Minor in Modern Languages Japanese and Chinese, Bachelor of Science Engineering - Biomedical Computation Minor in Modern Languages Japanese and Chinese at Stanford University
Japanese, Chinese
Github Skills (3)
monitor4
raspberry-pi3
iot2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
danielneil/Shark
Dec 2020 - May 2022
Contributions:1377 commits, 1701 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 5 months
danielneil/Smart-Worm-Habitat
May 2021 - May 2022
A Smart Worm Farm that can monitor itself using a little computer (nawww).
Contributions:4 PRs, 525 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year
raspberry-pimonitorwormfarmiot
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