EngageX

Join us for EngageX, formerly known as the Distinguished Speaker Series. Each year, we will engage with a significant topic, for the 2024-2025 school year, our focus is on AI. The event will take place in Andrews Banquet Room from 5:45-7:30 PM. Following EngageX, from 7:30-8:30 P.M., we invite you to an open house in the new AI Lab and Venture studio (located in the Business Building).

Our speaker, Yohan Lee will present on A Redemptive AI Future. The following topics will be discussed:

1. AI Landscape and Trends
2. Redemptive AI: Definition, Motivation, Vision
3. AI Risks: Vulnerabilities, Discomfort, 4th Industrial Revolution
4. AI Opportunities: Healing, Shaping, Glory

Dr. Yohan Lee has led advanced technology organizations for over 20 years in commercial industry, education, and government. He has been privileged to serve as a civil scientist (U.S. National Institutes of Health), Principal Investigator (Google AI), Chief Science Officer (Riiid Labs, Inc.), and CEO (Scaled Entelechy, Inc). His undergraduate and doctoral studies were at UCLA in neuroscience and genomics with a focus on the neurological basis of learning and memory in addition to precision medicine. His doctoral work centered on large scale genomic data for health and distributed computing. In his corporate role, Dr. Lee has led research and business units in industry, public-private partnerships, the federal government, and international academic consortia for enterprise initiatives with Fortune 50 corporations. Most recently, Dr. Lee founded the Silicon Valley AI startup ‘Scaled Entelechy, Inc.’ which was recognized by the U.S. National Artificial Intelligence Initiative office for its AI applications to upskill the workforce in AI. Dr. Lee joins Biola University as the Promod and Doris Haque Endowed Chair of Technology and Associate Dean for the School of Science Technology and Health (SSTH). His hopes for the position are to drive the vision of SSTH to be identified among the world’s foremost Christ-centered STEM and health schools.