Sergei Yakneen

CTO, Isomorphic Labs
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Before joining Isomorphic Labs, Sergei was Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer at SOPHiA GENETICS, where he helped develop and run an AI-based molecular diagnostics and data-driven medicine platform operating in more than 70 countries. 

Sergei has held senior roles at Amazon.com, where he launched the first Canadian software engineering centre; at BPS Inc., where he developed a best-in-class Governance, Risk, and Compliance platform; at the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research, where he led the Technical Working Group of the Pan Cancer Analysis of Whole Genomes Project, the world’s largest cancer data analysis initiative; and at EMBL where he developed a cloud-based scientific workflow framework. 

Sergei has a degree in computer science and mathematics from the University of Toronto and a PhD in computer science from Heidelberg University, where he developed novel distributed algorithms for analysing cancer genomes.

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