Joëlle Barral

CTO

Paris, Île-de-France, France20 yrs 11 mos experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Led AI research teams across multiple continents.
  • Pioneered robotic surgery innovations at Verily.
  • Developed MRI software for heart disease evaluation.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Healthcare-focused AI and Robotics expert.

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I am a Senior Director of Research & Engineering at Google DeepMind, leading AI research teams across the US, Canada and Europe. Building AI responsibly to benefit humanity.

Experience

20 yrs 11 mos
Total Experience
2 yrs 5 mos
Average Tenure
2 yrs 6 mos
Current Experience

Google deepmind

Research & Engineering Senior Director

Nov 2023Present · 2 yrs 6 mos · Paris, Île-de-France, France

Google

Engineering Director, Google Research

Apr 2022Nov 2023 · 1 yr 7 mos · Paris, Île-de-France, France

Verily

4 roles

Software Lead

Feb 2020May 2022 · 2 yrs 3 mos · Mountain View, California, United States

Engineering Manager

Promoted

May 2018Feb 2020 · 1 yr 9 mos · Mountain View, California, United States

  • Led the software team behind Verb's surgical robotics platform. J&J acquired Verb in Q1 2020.

Software Engineering Manager

May 2016Apr 2018 · 1 yr 11 mos · Mountain View, California, United States

Senior Hardware Engineer

Oct 2015Apr 2016 · 6 mos · Mountain View, California, United States

  • Google Life Sciences became Verily. Member of the team who started Verb Surgical, Verily’s joint venture with Johnson & Johnson’s Ethicon, pioneering a vision for the future of robotic surgery that leverages machine learning and digital tools to enhance the surgeon’s judgement, improve decision making, and positively impact clinical outcomes.

Google

Senior Hardware Engineer

Apr 2014Oct 2015 · 1 yr 6 mos · Mountain View, California, United States

  • Joined Google[x] as part of a group that became Google Life Sciences.

Heartvista, inc.

Senior Software Engineer

Jan 2011Jan 2014 · 3 yrs · Palo Alto, California, United States

  • Built an MRI software package for the comprehensive evaluation of ischemic and valvular heart diseases. First employee. HeartVista got its first FDA clearance in June 2014.
  • www.heartvista.ai

Stanford university

2 roles

Simon Stertzer Biodesign Innovation Fellow

Promoted

Aug 2010Jun 2011 · 10 mos · Stanford University, Stanford, CA

  • Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Medical Device Design & Entrepreneurship.
  • Identified unmet clinical needs, invented and prototyped solutions, and created commercialization strategies for new medical technologies as part of an entrepreneurial, interdisciplinary team.

Teaching Assistant

Jan 2006Jan 2010 · 4 yrs · Stanford, California, United States

  • BIOE374 “Biodesign Innovation”. Coached a 5-student team working on xerostomia (dry mouth) prevention in patients undergoing head and neck radiotherapy. The team won an NCIIA grant and XeroDry, Inc. was incorporated in June 2012.
  • EE369B “Medical Imaging Systems II”. Held weekly office
  • hours, developed and gave review lectures for 20 graduate students.
  • EE261 “The Fourier transform and its applications”. Held weekly office hours and problem set sessions, developed problem sets for 30 graduate students.

Pharmajet

Consultant

Feb 2009Dec 2009 · 10 mos · Golden, Colorado, United States

  • Designed protocols to image fluid distribution in skin and assess vaccine delivery.
  • PharmaJet’s needle-free injection system is a jet injector that delivers medicine to intramuscular and subcutaneous tissue depths without needles.

Micromri

Consultant

Jan 2009Dec 2009 · 11 mos · Langhorne, Pennsylvania, United States

  • Implemented an improved pulse sequence for high-resolution MRI of bone micro-architecture and an automatic motion correction scheme.
  • MicroMRI is a medical device company focused on developing and commercializing novel and innovative products that perform high resolution Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) of bone micro-architecture with subsequent detailed visualization of bone structural elements.

Magnetic resonance system research lab

Research Assistant

Sep 2005Jul 2010 · 4 yrs 10 mos · Stanford, California, United States

  • Clinical MR microscopy: designed and implemented surface coil arrays, SNR-efficient pulse sequences, and motion correction schemes for high-resolution skin and larynx MRI.

General electric

Intern

Jul 2005Sep 2005 · 2 mos · Niskayuna, New York, United States

  • Investigated new algorithms for Metal Artifact Reduction in CT.

Cabrera's group

Research Assistant

Sep 2004Jun 2005 · 9 mos

  • Designed and implemented a new graphical user interface for the optical imaging Transition Edge Sensor array project, tested electronic set-ups.

Max planck institute for physics

Research Assistant

Apr 2004Jul 2004 · 3 mos

  • Analyzed Silicon Photomultipliers.

Education

Stanford University

PhD — Electrical Engineering

Jan 2004Jan 2010

École Polytechnique

BS — Maths and Physics

Jan 2001Jan 2004

Lycée Hoche

Baccalauréat — Maths

Jan 1992Jan 2001

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