About Tim Gardner
Tim Gardner is currently Chief Informatics Officer for Cambium, applying AI and machine learning for high-performance materials discovery for use in extreme environments.
Tim’s 25+ year career spans the fields of therapeutic and industrial bioprocess development, synthetic biology, machine learning and AI, and SaaS in diverse operating environments: small startup, large corporate, and academia. His operating experience includes commercialization (strategy, market analysis, finance, sales and marketing, contracts, deal diligence, entrepreneurship, operations, people leadership) and his R&D experience includes (scientific and technology management, product management, cell line and process development, data science/ML, data infrastructure, software/SaaS, and teaching and academic research). He received his bachelor’s in mechanical engineering from Princeton University and his Ph.D. in biomedical engineering from Boston University.
Tim is a co-founder of the field of synthetic biology, as noted by the journal Nature. He has been recognized as a technology pioneer by Technology Review, the New York Times, and Scientific American.