Ronjon Nag
Education
Stanford University
DIstinguished Careers Institute Interdisciplinary Fellow, Center for the Study of Language and Information 2015-01-01 - 2018-01-01
MIT Sloan School of Management
S.M, Management Science 1989-01-01 - 1991-01-01
Stanford University
Harkness Fellow, Department of Psychology 1991-01-01 - 1992-01-01
University of Cambridge
PhD, Engineering 1984-01-01 - 1988-01-01
University of Birmingham
B.Sc. (1st class Hons), Electronic and Electrical Engineering 1981-01-01 - 1984-01-01
Stanford University School of Medicine
Adjunct Professor, AI , Genes, Ethics, Longevity Science and Venture Capital 2022-08-01 -Work Experience
Stanford University
Current
Stanford University
capAI Ltd
Current
capAI Ltd
R42 Group
Current
R42 Group
Ikshana Therapeutics Inc.
Current
Ikshana Therapeutics Inc.
MIT Alumni Angels of Northern California & MIT Club of Northern California
Current
MIT Alumni Angels of Northern California & MIT Club of Northern California
University of California, Berkeley
Current
University of California, Berkeley
Superbio.ai
Current
Superbio.ai
AGEMICA
Current
AGEMICA
Ecrio
Current
Ecrio
GTCardio
Current
GTCardio
Skills
Summary
Dr. Ronjon Nag is a renowned inventor, entrepreneur, and educator, with over 40 years of experience in developing AI technologies for smartphones, neural networks, and biotechnology. He is the Founder and President of R42 Group, a family office and venture group that invests primarily in AI, biotechnology, and science, and supports pre-seed stage companies in their growth journey. He is also an Adjunct Professor in Genetics in the Stanford School of Medicine and a Visiting Fellow at the Stanford Center for Language and Information (CSLI), where he teaches popular courses on AI, Genes, Ethics, Longevity Science, and Venture Capital. He is a Fellow and Trustee of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) and a Lifetime Member of the ACM. He has won multiple prestigious awards, including the IET Mountbatten Medal, the $1m Verizon Powerful Answers Award, the COGX AI Lifetime Achievement Award, the MIT Great Dome Award and is the 2024 Silicon Valley Engineering Council Hall of Fame Inductee. He is a founder, advisor, board member, and part owner of some 100 AI and Biotech start-ups, and has sold his companies to Apple, BlackBerry, and Motorola. He is passionate about inventing, informing, and investing in the future of humanity. He has a BSc (Birmingham), an MS (MIT), and a PhD (Cambridge). He has accomplished many firsts: • First laptop with speech recognition built-in (UK: Apricot Computers, 1984) • First selling cursive handwriting recognition system (with Lexicus, 1992) • First Chinese speech recognition dictation system (Lexicus/Motorola, 1996) • First speech recognition phones (Lexicus/Motorola, 1995) • First Chinese predictive text system on a phone (Lexicus/Motorola, 1997) • First predictive text systems in large volume (40 languages) on phones (Lexicus/Motorola, 1997) • First touch screen phone with apps, HTML browser, speech & handwriting recognition (Lexicus/Motorola, 1999) • First combined mobile app store and search engine (with Cellmania, 2000-2010) • First operator billable BlackBerry App Store (2011) • First Neural Network Artificial Intelligence System in the Cloud (Ersatz Labs, 2014) • First Wireless Throwable Camera (Bounce Imaging, 2015) • First Android powered smarthome lightswitch (Brightswitch, 2017) • First continuous blood pressure wearable (GT Cardio 2019) • First holographic phone call (R42 – Vivid-Q 2021) • First AutoML AI platform for biologists requiring no code (Superbio.ai 2021) • Proposed the first vaccine for aging developed using AI (Agemica.ai 2023)
