Ronjon Nag has been building AI systems for 40 years and co-founded or advised companies sold to Motorola, RIM/BlackBerry, and Apple. He is founder of his family office R42 Group, which invests, invents, and informs in the fields of AI and longevity. He is founder of Agemica.ai which is developing an aging vaccine. He became a Stanford Interdisciplinary Distinguished Careers Institute Fellow in 2016. He teaches AI and longevity science courses at Stanford Medicine. He received a PhD from Cambridge, an MS from MIT, the IET Mountbatten Medal, the $1 million Verizon Powerful Answers Award, the 2021 IEEE-SCV Outstanding Engineer Award, and the COGX AI Lifetime Achievement Award. He is the 2024 inductee into the Silicon Valley Engineering Hall of Fame and has been awarded the MIT Great Dome Award. He is part owner of some 100 AI and biotech startups.