Dr. Tanishq Mathew Abraham, 20, is the founder and CEO of MedARC, a medical AI research organization focused on training foundation models for medicine.. He recently graduated with a Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from the University of California, Davis. For the past 4 years, he has been researching the application of deep learning (especially generative AI) to novel microscopy techniques for digital pathology. He has presented his work at several conferences (including SPIE Photonics West, ICML workshop and BMES), published a book chapter, established various collaborations with labs around the world, and more. He has contributed to many open-source projects, including being on the founding team for DALL-E mini, being a frequent contributor to the fastai library, and lead developer of the UPIT library.

A child prodigy, Abraham graduated from college with three degrees at the age of 11. In 2015, he was a contestant on the popular Lifetime show Child Genius. He was Abraham was also one of the youngest members of the high IQ Society of Mensa, scoring in the 99.9th percentile.