Dr. Simant Dube is a Silicon Valley veteran with over two decades of experience in industry. He is currently Head of Machine Vision, Advanced AI, at Varian Medical Systems, Palo Alto where he leads the application of AI in medicine. Prior to his present role, Dr. Dube was Technical Director, Center for Advanced Machine Learning, at Symantec, Mountain View. Trained as a computer engineer, he has worked in medical imaging, cybersecurity, robotics, visual search, web search and biotechnology. In addition to his Silicon Valley experience, Dr. Dube is a former academic and educator and he has supervised students including those at PhD level. He recently taught courses in Deep Learning at New College of Florida, Sarasota, for one year and contributed to the development of an inaugural data science program. Dr. Dube was a visiting faculty member at Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur and Delhi, as a Ramanujan Fellow. He was a Canada International Fellow at Western University, London, Canada and he taught computer science at the University of New England, Armidale, Australia.
