Dr. Rothberg has served in senior leadership positions in optimization software companies for more than twenty years. Prior to his role as Gurobi CEO, Dr. Rothberg held the Gurobi COO position since co-founding Gurobi in 2008, and prior to that he led the ILOG CPLEX team. Dr. Edward Rothberg has a BS in Mathematical and Computational Science from Stanford University, and an MS and PhD in Computer Science, also from Stanford University. Dr. Rothberg has published numerous papers in the fields of linear algebra, parallel computing, and mathematical programming. He is one of the world's leading experts in sparse Cholesky factorization and computational linear, integer, and quadratic programming.

Pocket-size ultrasound devices that cost 50 times less than the machines in hospitals (and connect to your phone). These are just some of the innovations now transforming medicine at a remarkable pace. No one can predict the future, but it can at least be glimpsed in the dozen inventions and concepts below. Like the people behind them, they stand at the vanguard of health care. Neither exhaustive nor exclusive, the list is, rather, representative of the recasting of public health and medical science likely to come in the 2020s.

Pocket-size ultrasound devices that cost 50 times less than the machines in hospitals (and connect to your phone). These are just some of the innovations now transforming medicine at a remarkable pace. No one can predict the future, but it can at least be glimpsed in the dozen inventions and concepts below. Like the people behind them, they stand at the vanguard of health care. Neither exhaustive nor exclusive, the list is, rather, representative of the recasting of public health and medical science likely to come in the 2020s.

Pocket-size ultrasound devices that cost 50 times less than the machines in hospitals (and connect to your phone). These are just some of the innovations now transforming medicine at a remarkable pace. No one can predict the future, but it can at least be glimpsed in the dozen inventions and concepts below. Like the people behind them, they stand at the vanguard of health care. Neither exhaustive nor exclusive, the list is, rather, representative of the recasting of public health and medical science likely to come in the 2020s.

"What I love," says Alyssa Siefert, Engineering Director at Yale Center for Biomedical Innovation and Technology (CBIT), "is a democratization of problem solving." Siefert is one of the lead organizers of the Yale Healthcare Hackathon, an event in its fifth year that brings together a diverse group of clinicians, engineers, designers, patients and community members Jan 19-21 at Yale School of Medicine to come up with solutions to healthcare challenges. Last year, the event had representatives from eight countries and two dozen universities, and those numbers have been on the rise. About half the participants are non-Yale. The main sponsor of this year's event is 4Catalyzer, a Guilford, Connecticut-based accelerator founded by Dr. Jonathan Rothberg, who serves as its Chief Strategy Officer, for launching new biomedical startups with a heavy emphasis on medical devices, artificial intelligence and big data.

If Jonathan Rothberg has a superpower, it's cramming million-dollar, mainframe-sized machines onto single semiconductor circuit boards. The entrepreneurial engineer got famous (and rich) inventing the world's first DNA sequencer on a chip. And he's spent the last eight years sinking that expertise (and sizeable startup capital) into a new venture: making your smartphone screen a window into the human body. Last month, Rothberg's startup Butterfly Network unveiled the iQ, a cheap, handheld ultrasound tool that plugs right into an iPhone's lightning jack. You don't have to be a technician to use one--its machine learning algorithms guide the user to find what they might be looking for.

If Jonathan Rothberg has a superpower, it's cramming million-dollar, mainframe-sized machines onto single semiconductor circuit boards. The entrepreneurial engineer got famous (and rich) inventing the world's first DNA sequencer on a chip. And he's spent the last eight years sinking that expertise (and sizeable startup capital) into a new venture: making your smartphone screen a window into the human body. Last month, Rothberg's startup Butterfly Network unveiled the iQ, a cheap, handheld ultrasound tool that plugs right into an iPhone's lightning jack. You don't have to be a technician to use one--its machine learning algorithms guide the user to find what they might be looking for.

If Jonathan Rothberg has a superpower, it's cramming million-dollar, mainframe-sized machines onto single semiconductor circuit boards. The entrepreneurial engineer got famous (and rich) inventing the world's first DNA sequencer on a chip. And he's spent the last eight years sinking that expertise (and sizeable startup capital) into a new venture: making your smartphone screen a window into the human body. Last month, Rothberg's startup Butterfly Network unveiled the iQ, a cheap, handheld ultrasound tool that plugs right into an iPhone's lightning jack. You don't have to be a technician to use one--its machine learning algorithms guide the user to find what they might be looking for.

That massive MRI machine at the hospital that can look for damage inside your knee? And operating the thing takes not only time but expertise. The same goes for the ultrasound machine that a provides a look at your unborn baby. But entrepreneur Jonathan Rothberg says it doesn't have to be this way. Rothberg just announced $100 million in funding for his three-year-old startup, Butterfly Network, that hopes to create a new handheld medical-imaging device that can make both MRI and ultrasounds significantly cheaper and more efficient. The aim is even to automate much of the medical imaging process, and in a little over a year, if all goes according to plan, the device could be ready for deployment in clinics, retail pharmacies, and in poorer regions of the world.