Ian Derrington
About Me
An Informationist
Evolving faster and higher worth value-chains involving information for society, biology, and, aesthetics.
Empowering solutions that translate biological data into value for cures and solutions for patients and doctors.
Developing products that encourage high-value information exchange between people and the internet.
What am I up to?
I am coding at the intersection of artificial intelligence and healthcare, helping to create information chains that decode DNA sequence information with nanopore scanner technology that I helped to invent.
I am creating a non-profit to encourage thoughtful interaction with information and effective communication between people.
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I am helping to create The Honest Majority to encourage us to move our perceptions beyond zero-sum outcomes.
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I am writing to create words that will better shape our futures.
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I am designing AI with art to bring inspiring aesthetics to our world.
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Fortunately, I'm not doing this alone. Care to join me?
MY SKILLSET
My skills have been honed through years of academia and industry Inspired by an important realization. Knowledge is power, but information is not knowledge. It takes months and sometimes longer to create useful information from what we've already recorded and what we will record in the future. I have coupled this data with AI-based algorithms, and helped to accelerate this process.
AI IN HEALTHCARE
Seeing and understanding the powers and challenges of AI in healthcare. Helping to develop solutions for the information-exchange between life and understanding.
GOOD INFORMATION FOR EVERYONE
Disinformation hurts our understanding of reality and increases the harm to our present and future. Working on next-generation solutions for increased understanding between people and reality.
Experience
December, 2019
MAKE TRUTH MATTER AGAIN
President and CEO
Founded Make Truth Matter Again and established its core vision: to create a foundry team working to create products that are self-sustaining and inherently work to combat disinformation.
July, 2016 -
PRINCIPLE DATA SCIENTIST II, ROCHE
Pushing the boundaries of technology by creating processes and algorithms with AI to enable disruptive a next-generation Sequencing Technology.
Jan 1, 2010 - Jan 1 - 2012
NEXT-GEN TECHNOLOGY CONSULTANT, ILLUMINA
Created analyses and observations to enable next-generation sequencing technology to come closer to industrial realization.
Dec 2010 - July 2016
POST DOCTORAL RESEARCH, UW
Developed a precision enzyme measurement tool called Single Molecule Picometer Resolution Nanopore Tweezers and advised undergrads and grads
EDUCATION
2019
CERT. IN ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND INNOVATION. STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS
Developed and pitched a rapid 9-week project to prospective investors
2005-2010
PH.D. PHYSICS
Developed and studied a next-generation DNA sequencing method. Focuses ranged from from creating and performing experiments and to writing journal papers in notable journals and grants awarded multi-million dollars.
2001-2005
B.S. ENGINEERING PHYSICS, CU BOULDER
Probed fundamental physics using maximum-likelihood analyses on high volume data
2001-2005
B.S. APPLIED MATHEMATICS
Worked on Newtonian-methods like algorithms for numerical equation solution approximations.
