GENNAN CHEN
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Experience
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CALYX
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United Kingdom
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Pharmaceutical Manufacturing
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700 & Above Employee
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Vice President, General Manager China & Medical Imaging Technology
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Sep 2023 - Present
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Vice President, Head of APAC and Solution Deployment
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Jan 2023 - Sep 2023
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Vice President, Head of APAC
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Jan 2021 - Sep 2023
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Parexel
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United States
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Pharmaceutical Manufacturing
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700 & Above Employee
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Vice President, Head of APAC, Parexel Informatics
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Jul 2019 - Jan 2021
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Bioclinica
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United States
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Pharmaceutical Manufacturing
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700 & Above Employee
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Head of AI
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Sep 2018 - Jul 2019
• Responsible for Bioclinica AI related products and services • Managing collaboration across different business units within Bioclinica, major academic institutes, offshore outsourcing and 3rd party vendors
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Head of Medical Imaging Research And Development
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Jan 2018 - Aug 2018
• Adding management responsibility of Software QA team and Project Management team on top of R&D team.
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Director of Research and Development
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May 2015 - Jan 2018
• Managing the international development team (peak at 70+) with annual ~5 mil budget to develop and maintain Bioclinica imaging clinical trial platform (SMART), including electronic medical imaging submission and management, reading workstation, Imaging processing algorithms, HPC imagine processing cluster, and Business Intelligence and Analytics services. • Managing global research/algorithm team for long term AI/Deep learning initiative and related core IP development • Managing… Show more • Managing the international development team (peak at 70+) with annual ~5 mil budget to develop and maintain Bioclinica imaging clinical trial platform (SMART), including electronic medical imaging submission and management, reading workstation, Imaging processing algorithms, HPC imagine processing cluster, and Business Intelligence and Analytics services. • Managing global research/algorithm team for long term AI/Deep learning initiative and related core IP development • Managing collaboration with major academic institutes, Offshore outsourcing and 3rd party vendors • Building a culture of innovation and collaboration, mentoring managers and individual contributors across the organization and build strong bridges with multiple internal and external stakeholders. • Providing hands-on technical direction for all engineering and research projects – evaluating options, making decisions, and evaluating results to ensure scientific and budget value.
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Manager
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Jan 2012 - May 2015
• Managing reading platform development team • Managing global research/algorithm development team • Evaluating and managing external collaboration with academic labs, commercial partners and outsourcing staffing companies. • Provide oversight of the design, development, unit test and release software to support Bioclinica’s business. • Lead group in developing and maintaining a successful partnership with other engineering groups and Bioclinica departments. • Ensure staff… Show more • Managing reading platform development team • Managing global research/algorithm development team • Evaluating and managing external collaboration with academic labs, commercial partners and outsourcing staffing companies. • Provide oversight of the design, development, unit test and release software to support Bioclinica’s business. • Lead group in developing and maintaining a successful partnership with other engineering groups and Bioclinica departments. • Ensure staff follows proper company and departmental standards, processes and procedures in the delivery of systems. • Plan and direct engineering activities so that agreed upon goals and objectives, including schedules, milestones and cost, are successfully achieved. • Lead the development of our solutions as specified by product roadmaps and defined architecture. • Provide software and cross-functional technical engineering leadership. • Manage and contribute to the improvement of development process, coding practices, tools and business process on an ongoing basis. • Ensure that systems are released in accordance with regulatory and Bioclinica’s standards. • Work with development staff on career planning and growth. Manage performance on an ongoing basis with regular feedback and focal evaluations.
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Product Architect
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Oct 2010 - Jan 2012
Lead role in analyzing and defining requirements for software used to support Synarc’s radiologists, clinical data managers, operations staff, clients and partners. Responsibilities: • Work with system users and business owners to define user and system requirements. • Act as manager and thought leader for Synarc’s engineering product management group. • Play lead role in design of clinical systems at Synarc. • Develop prototypes to support system design and evaluate new… Show more Lead role in analyzing and defining requirements for software used to support Synarc’s radiologists, clinical data managers, operations staff, clients and partners. Responsibilities: • Work with system users and business owners to define user and system requirements. • Act as manager and thought leader for Synarc’s engineering product management group. • Play lead role in design of clinical systems at Synarc. • Develop prototypes to support system design and evaluate new technologies. • Oversee and participate in software development activities. • Successfully communicate conceptual ideas and design rationale. • Provide technical mentoring and training to other members of the software engineering team. • Write and contribute to design specifications, installation guides and other technical documentation in accordance with Synarc best practices. • Work with other technical staff to support system installations, upgrades, and configurations of software. • Assist in training of users and creation of user manuals. • Ensure that system design and implementation meets regulatory and Synarc standards. As an expert in the field, uses professional concepts
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Director
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Mar 2010 - Oct 2010
responsible for all areas of GMP related software development activities, platform architecture, algorithm optimization and intellectual property development responsible for all areas of GMP related software development activities, platform architecture, algorithm optimization and intellectual property development
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Broncus Medical, Inc.
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United States
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Medical Equipment Manufacturing
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1 - 100 Employee
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Senior Scientist, Imaging Engineering
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Nov 2008 - Dec 2009
1. Lead developer on vessel segmentation module for MDCT Lung images. 2. Architect and lead developer of Distributed High Performance Image Processing Services. It includes DICOM SCP service, DICOM Image Filtering and Conversion service., Asynchronized Batch Job Processing Service. Each node can process 100 dicom series per day. 3. Architect of Internal development and Continuous unit/integration test IT infrastructure. Used Servers include: DCM4CHEE PACS server, SVN source control… Show more 1. Lead developer on vessel segmentation module for MDCT Lung images. 2. Architect and lead developer of Distributed High Performance Image Processing Services. It includes DICOM SCP service, DICOM Image Filtering and Conversion service., Asynchronized Batch Job Processing Service. Each node can process 100 dicom series per day. 3. Architect of Internal development and Continuous unit/integration test IT infrastructure. Used Servers include: DCM4CHEE PACS server, SVN source control server, TeamCity continuous build and test server and Trac Project management server. 4. Architect and lead developer on the iphone application and its related backend service. Show less 1. Lead developer on vessel segmentation module for MDCT Lung images. 2. Architect and lead developer of Distributed High Performance Image Processing Services. It includes DICOM SCP service, DICOM Image Filtering and Conversion service., Asynchronized Batch Job Processing Service. Each node can process 100 dicom series per day. 3. Architect of Internal development and Continuous unit/integration test IT infrastructure. Used Servers include: DCM4CHEE PACS server, SVN source control… Show more 1. Lead developer on vessel segmentation module for MDCT Lung images. 2. Architect and lead developer of Distributed High Performance Image Processing Services. It includes DICOM SCP service, DICOM Image Filtering and Conversion service., Asynchronized Batch Job Processing Service. Each node can process 100 dicom series per day. 3. Architect of Internal development and Continuous unit/integration test IT infrastructure. Used Servers include: DCM4CHEE PACS server, SVN source control server, TeamCity continuous build and test server and Trac Project management server. 4. Architect and lead developer on the iphone application and its related backend service. Show less
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Rexee
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Software Development
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1 - 100 Employee
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Director Of Operation
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Sep 2007 - Oct 2008
1. Lead a small team to design and implement computational backend cluster for video/images processing and content indexing. The system can index 50K videos per day and can ram up processing quickly by using Amazon EC2 instance. It includes optimized video fetching service (grab videos from different video sites based on different priority), Asynchronized Batch Job Processing Service to index videos, Solr/Lucene indexing service and Indexed content uploading service (Upload to Amazon S3 and… Show more 1. Lead a small team to design and implement computational backend cluster for video/images processing and content indexing. The system can index 50K videos per day and can ram up processing quickly by using Amazon EC2 instance. It includes optimized video fetching service (grab videos from different video sites based on different priority), Asynchronized Batch Job Processing Service to index videos, Solr/Lucene indexing service and Indexed content uploading service (Upload to Amazon S3 and CDN). 2. Lead developer in various services related to textural and image mining/indexing systems through integrating human computation systems, such as Amazon Mechanical Turk, into mining systems 3. Developed usage feedback systems, including log scraping, user usage reporting and feedback mechanism back to mining/indexing system. Show less 1. Lead a small team to design and implement computational backend cluster for video/images processing and content indexing. The system can index 50K videos per day and can ram up processing quickly by using Amazon EC2 instance. It includes optimized video fetching service (grab videos from different video sites based on different priority), Asynchronized Batch Job Processing Service to index videos, Solr/Lucene indexing service and Indexed content uploading service (Upload to Amazon S3 and… Show more 1. Lead a small team to design and implement computational backend cluster for video/images processing and content indexing. The system can index 50K videos per day and can ram up processing quickly by using Amazon EC2 instance. It includes optimized video fetching service (grab videos from different video sites based on different priority), Asynchronized Batch Job Processing Service to index videos, Solr/Lucene indexing service and Indexed content uploading service (Upload to Amazon S3 and CDN). 2. Lead developer in various services related to textural and image mining/indexing systems through integrating human computation systems, such as Amazon Mechanical Turk, into mining systems 3. Developed usage feedback systems, including log scraping, user usage reporting and feedback mechanism back to mining/indexing system. Show less
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Chief Scientific Officer
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Dec 2001 - Oct 2007
1. Scientific architect and lead programmer in prototyping, design, implementation and testing of all MR imaging algorithms suitable for multi-site/multi-vendor cross-sectional and longitudinal MR human image analysis. Developed algorithms include MR imaging artifact correction (B0/B1 effect, Gradient Nonlinearity correction, intensity histogram equalization), Skull Stripping, Registration (rigid body/affine/nonlinear), Segmentation (MRF, Level Set), Features Extraction and Disease… Show more 1. Scientific architect and lead programmer in prototyping, design, implementation and testing of all MR imaging algorithms suitable for multi-site/multi-vendor cross-sectional and longitudinal MR human image analysis. Developed algorithms include MR imaging artifact correction (B0/B1 effect, Gradient Nonlinearity correction, intensity histogram equalization), Skull Stripping, Registration (rigid body/affine/nonlinear), Segmentation (MRF, Level Set), Features Extraction and Disease Classification, and Visualization. 2. Designed and implementation of computational appliance by using DJANGO, GWT, mySQL/SQLite, Apache and Linux/OS X. 3. Managed a small staff of computational scientists and software engineers. Collaborated with Radiologists, Neurologists and Researchers to gather users feedback and plan future development directions. 6. Responsible for implementation of scientific content for commercially licensed products including Siemens Medical and GE Medical including computational algorithms for use in biomarker identification for drug discovery and validation application. 7. Provided scientific input into developed and third-party intellectual property, and assisted in structuring scientific claims for patent applications. Provided material computational content for a NIH grant for validation of software and methods against the Alzheimer’s Disease Neurological Initiative clinical trial of approximately 1,000 subjects. Show less 1. Scientific architect and lead programmer in prototyping, design, implementation and testing of all MR imaging algorithms suitable for multi-site/multi-vendor cross-sectional and longitudinal MR human image analysis. Developed algorithms include MR imaging artifact correction (B0/B1 effect, Gradient Nonlinearity correction, intensity histogram equalization), Skull Stripping, Registration (rigid body/affine/nonlinear), Segmentation (MRF, Level Set), Features Extraction and Disease… Show more 1. Scientific architect and lead programmer in prototyping, design, implementation and testing of all MR imaging algorithms suitable for multi-site/multi-vendor cross-sectional and longitudinal MR human image analysis. Developed algorithms include MR imaging artifact correction (B0/B1 effect, Gradient Nonlinearity correction, intensity histogram equalization), Skull Stripping, Registration (rigid body/affine/nonlinear), Segmentation (MRF, Level Set), Features Extraction and Disease Classification, and Visualization. 2. Designed and implementation of computational appliance by using DJANGO, GWT, mySQL/SQLite, Apache and Linux/OS X. 3. Managed a small staff of computational scientists and software engineers. Collaborated with Radiologists, Neurologists and Researchers to gather users feedback and plan future development directions. 6. Responsible for implementation of scientific content for commercially licensed products including Siemens Medical and GE Medical including computational algorithms for use in biomarker identification for drug discovery and validation application. 7. Provided scientific input into developed and third-party intellectual property, and assisted in structuring scientific claims for patent applications. Provided material computational content for a NIH grant for validation of software and methods against the Alzheimer’s Disease Neurological Initiative clinical trial of approximately 1,000 subjects. Show less
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Education
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Boston University
Ph.D, Cognitive and Neural System