Bahram G Kermani

Crystal Genetics Inc.,USA

Biography

Bahram G Kermani is the Founder and CEO of Crystal Genetics, Inc. He was the Vice President of Bioinformatics, Software Engineering and IT at Guardant Health and served as the Senior Director of Computational Biology at Complete Genomics. He is an expert in the field of computational biology and pattern recognition. He has held various scientific positions at Illumina, where he designed and implemented algorithms for various proteomics and genomics applications, including Illumina's world renowned SNP genotyping system. He was a Lead Digital Designer at Lucent Technologies (AT&T Bell Laboratories), where he designed and analyzed various digital signal processors. He has completed his Postdoctoral fellowship at Duke University Medical Center in 1996, PhD and MS in Electrical Engineering and Biomedical Engineering in 1996 and 1992, respectively from North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC. He has received his BS (1989) in Electronics Engineering from Amirkabir University of Technology (Tehran Polytechnique), Tehran, Iran. He has several publications in the areas of electrical engineering, biomedical engineering and genomics and holds 42 patents, issued in the United States, Canada, France, United Kingdom, Germany and Japan.