AI in Action E358: Maarten Braspenning, Founder & CEO and Alexander Lukyanov, Scientific Director at BISC Global

Today's guest is Maarten Braspenning, Founder & CEO and Alexander Lukyanov, Scientific Director at BISC Global. Founded in 2017 by an experienced team of bioinformaticians, statisticians and business leaders, BISC Global's goal is to help customers overcome their challenges in data-analysis, pipeline automation, visualization and compute environments. Over the past few years, BISC Global has grown to become one of the world’s premier consulting companies in bioinformatics, statistics and ML/AI.

With teams located in Boston, San Francisco, Belgium and Switzerland, BISC Global supports a variety of data analysis tools, including machine learning (data mining, pattern recognition, image analysis, (un)supervised learning, neural networks, deep learning), bioinformatics (single-cell transcriptomics, metabolomics, metagenomics, epigenomics), and statistics (experimental design, mathematic modelling, signal-to-noise enhancement, and independent data cross validation).

In the episode, Marten and Alexander discuss:

The motivation for setting up BISC Global,

The role of AI and Machine Learning in their products,

Use cases of the benefits that they bring to customers,

Team structure and typical projects they work on,

The journey of building a startup from the ground up,

Why BISC Global is a great place to work and

What the future holds for BISC Global