Researcher · Academic · Founder · Executive
Daphne Koller
Founder and CEO at insitro
Koller helped establish probabilistic graphical models, which let computers reason about complex systems under uncertainty. She then co-founded Coursera, opening university courses to millions, and founded insitro to use machine learning and large biological datasets to discover better medicines.
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Background
Current role
Founder and CEO 2018-presentinsitro
insitroPreviously
2012-2019Co-founder, 
Coursera
Coursera1995-2014Professor, 
Stanford University
Stanford UniversityBorn1968
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