Kathy Yeung, M.B.A, Chief Executive Officer and Chair of Board

MBA, University of California, Los Angeles, California

BA, University of California, Los Angeles, California

Kathy Yeung brings over 20 years of executive experience leading and scaling innovative small and mid-size technology companies. Her sweet spot is creating successful business models, and she has repeatedly taken strong ideas and developed them into profitable, sustainable enterprises. As the Co-Founder and COO of SimplyBridal, an omni-channel e-commerce and retail company, Mrs. Yeung successfully grew the business and in 2 years matched established competitors. She was also part of the management team that successfully evolved Oversee.net, an online performance marketing technology company, from $60M to $200M in three years. Her business background and focus reminds everyone on the ViQi team to always prioritize the needs of the customer.

Kristian Kvilekval, Ph.D., Co-Founder, President and Chief Architect

PhD, Computer Science, University of California, Santa Barbara, California

BS, Computer Science, American University in Paris, France

Math, CalTech, California

Dr. Kris Kvilekval has extensive experience working on large cluster and cloud computing platforms. Prior to ViQi, he co-led the BisQue project since its inception at the Center for Bio-Image Informatics at UC Santa Barbara. BisQue supports image data from any domain and offers imaging services from capture and querying to analysis and intensive training of machine learning models. Dr. Kvilekval’s expertise in databases and distributed systems contributed to the scalability capabilities of BisQue. Before his time at UC Santa Barbara, he was an entrepreneur founding a successful software development company in Europe.

Dmitry Fedorov, M.S., Chief Technology Officer / Co-Founder

MS, Image Processing/Applied Computing, National Space Research Institute/ECE, Brazil & University of California, Santa Barbara, California

BS, Computer Science, Federal University of Pelotas, Brazil

Dmitry Fedorov is an image processing expert with over 15 years of experience and more than 30 publications. He co-led the BisQue project since its inception at the Center for Bio-Image Informatics at UC Santa Barbara. He has also completed several highly successful projects, among them: Dimin Image Viewer with more than 1M downloads, Regeemy (first fully automated and semi-automated operational image registration and mosaicking system for satellite data), libbioimage (an open-source image decoding and processing C++ library for life-sciences), and GeoJasper library with geo extensions for JPEG-2000. He graduated with recognition “best project in the last 5 years” in image processing from National Institute for Space Research in Brazil.

Christian Lang, Ph.D., Chief Information Officer / Co-Founder

PhD, Computer Science, University of California, Santa Barbara, California

BS+MS, Computer Science, Technical University of Munich, Germany

Dr. Christian Lang is an expert in data management and analytics, graph mining, and high-dimensional indexing with over 25 years of industrial and academic research experience. Prior to founding ViQi, Dr. Lang served as Chief Technology Officer of Acelot, Inc., a life-science based R&D company that applies novel graph mining technology to the space of 3D molecular structures in order to find new cures for CNS diseases. Dr. Lang was also a research staff member at IBM Research where he led various research projects investigating search and retrieval algorithms on structured and unstructured (geometric and multimedia) data. Dr. Lang has published his findings in over 30 papers in leading data management and data mining journals and conferences and he holds over 20 U.S. and international patents on his inventions.

Ilya Goldberg, Ph.D., Chief Science Officer

Postdoc, Image Informatics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Massachusetts

Postdoc, Crystallography, Harvard University, Massachusetts

PhD, Cellular and Molecular Biology, The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Maryland

BS, Biochemistry, University of Madison, Wisconsin

Dr. Ilya Goldberg has over 30 years of experience leading infrastructure development projects for scientific imaging, image-based assays for the life sciences, and image based diagnostics for healthcare. His expertise bridges the gap between generating data from scientific applications and the technology to manage and analyze that data. Dr. Goldberg has been a pioneer in the development of bio-image informatics and ML. Prior to joining ViQi, Dr. Goldberg was the Co-Founder and CTO of Mindshare Medical, where he led a product development team for AI software used for assessing lung cancer risk in nodules found in CT scans. Mindshare was the first product cleared in Canada and the European Union (CE Mark) as a Class II Medical device using AI in radiology to make diagnostic predictions. Dr. Goldberg was also a Section Head for 15 years at the NIH - National Institute on Aging, where he focused on pattern recognition, machine learning, and imaging to study aging in C. elegans and humans.

Timothy Spicer, Ph.D., Scientific Advisory Board 

Timothy Spicer, Ph.D. is a Research Professor and senior scientific director at UF Scripps Biomedical Research and is the current President of the board of directors at Society of Laboratory Automation & Screening (SLAS). Dr. Spicer brings with him extensive knowledge of High Throughput Screening (HTS) systems and technology development, 30+ years of drug discovery experience, 100+ publications, and multiple patents. Tim’s understanding of how High Content Analysis automation addresses the current needs and limitations of the HTS process will help ViQi prioritize its AI solutions.