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Scott Penberthy, PhD, MS, is a Board Member at The Lustgarten Foundation and the Managing Director of Applied AI in Google Cloud's Office of the CTO.12 He is a visionary engineering leader with extensive expertise in artificial intelligence (AI) and technology, particularly in the healthcare space.1
At Google, Dr. Penberthy focuses on using AI to discover new cancer drugs, diagnose conditions before they're evident, and improve oncologists' efficiency.2 He has a personal passion for helping cure cancer with advances in AI, which stems from losing his mother to breast cancer when she was 57.12
Prior to joining Google in December 2016, Dr. Penberthy served as the Managing Director of Technology at PwC, where he led a company-wide digital transformation and introduced AI and cloud services.13
Dr. Penberthy holds a PhD from the University of Washington and a degree from MIT.2 He serves on several advisory boards, including:
- The AI in Precision Oncology Journal
- The ClinPGx Board
- Stanford University's Institute for Computational & Mathematical Engineering
- Harvard University's technical advisory board23
His work at Google involves using AI to model lives and data as tensors, aiming to detect health issues early and suggest actions to maintain wellness.2