Tanishq Abraham, PhD, is a generative and medical AI researcher and the Founding CEO of Sophont, where he is building open-source multimodal medical foundation models. He earned his PhD in biomedical engineering from UC Davis at age 19—becoming the youngest in the field—under Dr. Richard Levenson, with research in deep learning for novel microscopy in digital pathology. At 14, he was the youngest biomedical engineer in the U.S. Previously, as Research Director at Stability AI, he founded and led MedARC, an open medical AI initiative featured in NeurIPS, ICML, Nature Biomedical Engineering, and cited in U.S. Senate testimony. He co-created DALL·E Mini, contributed to fast.ai and EleutherAI, and taught the 2022 fast.ai course. A Notebooks Grandmaster on Kaggle, he engages an audience of 80K+ on Twitter, including AI leaders like Karpathy and Andreessen. Tanishq specializes in deep learning, generative AI, open science, and scalable innovation in digital healthcare.