Primary Job Title CEO Primary Organization 
Deep Genomics
Location Toronto, Ontario, Canada Regions Great Lakes Gender Male
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Brendan has made fundamental contributions to the fields of machine learning and genome biology, both in research and in industry. He led the team that developed a deep learning method for identifying the splicing-related genetic determinants of disease, which was published in the January 9, 2015 edition of Science Magazine. In the past twenty
years, he has co-authored over 12 papers in Science, Nature and Cell, including one of the first papers on deep learning (Science, 1995). Brendan is a co-inventor of the affinity propagation algorithm and of the factor graph notation for graphical models. He has consulted for over a dozen machine learning-powered companies, has served on the technical advisory board of Microsoft Research, holds seven patents, and has served as an expert witness in patent litigation. Brendan’s former team members include entrepreneurs, industrial researchers, and professors at highly recognized centers in Canada, the United States, England and Europe.
