No­var­tis taps Iya Khalil, physi­cist co-founder of GNS Health­care, to lead AI In­no­va­tion Cen­ter

At the turn of the mil­len­ni­um, fin­ish­ing up her PhD in the­o­ret­i­cal physics, Iya Khalil found the ca­reer paths in front of her want­i­ng. Aca­d­e­m­ic post­ings were tough to get, but she couldn’t en­vi­sion ap­ply­ing all she’s learned to pre­dict stocks on Wall Streets, as some of her con­tem­po­raries did.

She was work­ing on mod­els of two-di­men­sion­al elec­tron gas, a top­ic in sol­id-state physics, when she met Col­in Hill, the fel­low Cor­nell physi­cist with whom she would lat­er start a com­pa­ny named Gene Net­work Sci­ences.

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