I always knew I wanted to help people using computers, but I wasn’t sure how to get from software to the kind of miraculous tech and medicine only seen in science fiction. I started as a student researcher in a neuroscience lab studying a brain molecule which showed promise for blocking drug addictions. This experience led to my first scientific paper and then a PhD in bioinformatics. This was the first dream fulfilled: the chance to combine my love of computers and math to predict outcomes, make medicine, and heal real people from terminal cancer.When I graduated, I worked at the National Institutes of Health with some of the world’s best scientists and then Booz Allen with some of the world’s best technologists to solve big problems with big tech. In just a few years, I was supporting and leading capture for contracts totaling over $100M spanning infrastructure, healthcare, defense, and commercial products. The result was a lasting impact made possible through partnerships with academia, government, and corporations to make them sustainable in the way that only commercial enterprise can at scale. Global commerce became the norm when I was recruited to Google AI where world-class scientists, entrepreneurs and Machine Learning led to new products, markets, and ventures that made those early dreams a reality. Success in these Industry-leading enterprises revealed new opportunities where the risk of high velocity startups met reward with the most successful Kaggle competition of 2020, creation of overseas business units, becoming #1 on the Apple App Store / Google Play Store, and an institutional fundraising round of $174M.All of it is humbling, a privilege undeserved. Accomplishing these kinds of dreams continually affirms that humbling oneself to a loving higher power, can lead to an impact unimagined. And then you discover that the higher power was the one who put those dreams in your heart in the first place.Outside of work, I serve on the Board of Revive Presbyterian Church of Silicon Valley; an organization committed to reaching the nations of Silicon Valley and engaging the lives of the homeless, marginalized, and vulnerable within our city.I enjoy traveling, speaking at conferences, and sharing a positive vision of AI solving some of our society’s toughest problems for good.If you ever want to bounce ideas off of me where AI can be used for good and address homelessness, feel free to contact me on Twitter @YLbfx!