Board of Directors-Cofounders

CEO / Co-founder

Dr. Ronjon Nag is an inventor and entrepreneur. He is an Adjunct Professor in Genetics at the Stanford School of Medicine and a Visiting Fellow at the Stanford Center for Language and Information (CSLI). He is the founder of the R42 Institute which invents, informs, and invests. Ronion is a Trustee of the Institute of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET - 160,000 members). He has won the 2021 IEEE-SCV Outstanding Engineer award, the IET Mountbatten Medal, the $1m Verizon Powerful Answers Award (for Bounce Imaging where he is Chairman), and the 2023 COGX (90,000 attendee AI conference) Lifetime Achievement award. He is a founder and advisor/board member and part owner of some 100 AI and Biotech start-ups. His companies have been sold to Apple, BlackBerry, and Motorola.

He has been a pioneer of smartphones and the 'app stores' they depend on. He has worked on neural networks, touch screens, mobile search, voice recognition, text prediction, and handwriting recognition. Currently, he works at the intersection of mathematics and medicine and teaches popular courses on AI, Genes, Ethics, Longevity Science, and Venture Capital at Stanford University and through the Stanford Continuing Studies Program (where anyone can register with no prerequisites).