Jesutofunmi Omiye is currently a postdoc in AI-dermatology at Stanford. His research interests border on the nexus of artificial intelligence and policy to improve dermatology care, and healthcare more broadly. He received his MS in Health Policy at Stanford where he studied the utility of machine learning algorithms in clinical settings, computer vision models in surgery, and evaluated how macroeconomic policies influence mortality.
Tofunmi received his medical degree from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria where he was a Federal Government and Shell University Scholar. As a medical student, he served as the chair of a pan-African health conference where he worked with the WHO, and Gates Foundation. His work has been featured in top national and international news media including The Guardian.
Also, he is the co-founder of The Ganglion Initiative, a non-profit that has provided educational and career empowerment schemes to over 8,000 students in Nigeria. In his spare time, he enjoys traveling, soccer, tennis, studying the financial markets, and music.
tomiye@stanford.edu