Angela Wilkins

Angela Wilkins is the Executive Director of the Ken Kennedy Institute, responsible for the development and implementation of the Institute’s programs in the computational sciences. After earning a Ph.D. in theoretical physics from Lehigh University, she shifted her focus to computational biology and spent nine years at Baylor College of Medicine as a researcher and instructor. She later served as director of clinical research at the nonprofit Center for Science & Law, and in 2017 founded Mercury Data Science, solving data science problems for early-stage companies. Wilkins holds four patents, has been involved in several federally funded projects, and has been published extensively.

Education

• Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Lehigh University (2002 — 2007)

Companies

• Partner First Bight Ventures (2022)
• Adjunct Professor Rice Business - Jones Graduate School of Business (2022)
• Member Chief (2022)
• Board The Alliance for Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare (AAIH) (2020)
• Executive Director, Ken Kennedy Institute Rice University (2020)
• Founder, CEO, CTO, COO, CFO, Human Resources, Janitor, etc. Mercury Data Science (2017 — 2020)
• Director of Clinical Research Center for Science and Law (2017 — 2018)
• Research Faculty / Instructor Baylor College of Medicine (2011 — 2017)
• Postdoc Baylor College of Medicine (2007 — 2011)