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Sema4: Gustavo Stolovitzky

Sep 13, 2021

Gustavo Stolovitzky has been appointed as CSO of Sema4. He joins the company from IBM Research, where he was an IBM Fellow as well as the founding chair of the Exploratory Life Sciences program. He holds an MS degree in physics from the University of Buenos Aires and a PhD in engineering and applied sciences from Yale University.

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