* * * * Contact Stefan View digital business card Find Stefan on LinkedIn Find Stefan on LinkedIn CSIRO Science Digital - AI for Science Program CSIRO Science Digital - AI for Science Program TEDxSydney 2025 - talk (generative AI agents as lab assistants for health and life scientists) TEDxSydney 2025 - talk (generative AI agents as lab assistants for health and life scientists) Academic Press 2024 - book (how AI drives the digital transformation of pharma, prefaced by Eric Topol) Academic Press 2024 - book (how AI drives the digital transformation of pharma, prefaced by Eric Topol) The Lancet 2023 - publication (generative AI ethics in health and medicine) The Lancet 2023 - publication (generative AI ethics in health and medicine) Forbes 2022 - op-ed (innovating with AI in health and medicine) Forbes 2022 - op-ed (innovating with AI in health and medicine) Forbes 2021 - op-ed (commercialising AI in health and medicine) Forbes 2021 - op-ed (commercialising AI in health and medicine) JAMA Network Open 2020 - publication (AI for breast cancer screening) JAMA Network Open 2020 - publication (AI for breast cancer screening) Cell Press 2019 - publication (AI for clinical trial design) Cell Press 2019 - publication (AI for clinical trial design) ABC Radio 2018 - media coverage (AI for epileptic seizure prediction) ABC Radio 2018 - media coverage (AI for epileptic seizure prediction) World Economic Forum 2017 - media coverage (AI for epileptic seizure prediction) World Economic Forum 2017 - media coverage (AI for epileptic seizure prediction) WIRED Magazine 2016 - media coverage (AI for epileptic seizure prediction) WIRED Magazine 2016 - media coverage (AI for epileptic seizure prediction) Share Director, AI for Science - Science Digital https://people.csiro.au/h/s/stefan-harrer Please enter a valid first name Please enter a valid last name Please enter a valid email address Please enter your message to send to the contact Your enquiry has been successfully sent Your enquiry could not be processed. Please contact us directly at www.csiro.au/Contact to make your enquiry Contact details: Stefan turns ideas into reality. As scientist, incubator, strategic advisor and executive manager he builds and works with interdisciplinary, diverse technical and commercial teams at the intersection of digital health, neurotech, the life sciences, and AI. Integrating safe and trustworthy AI systems into cloud and edge platforms to bring assistive data analytics and scalable data management tools to human decision makers in health, biotech, MedTech, and pharma is his core skill. He is an expert in producing and commercializing innovations in AI and science across complex, highly regulated environments spanning industry, academia, and government. Following corporate strategic advisory roles in the US and APAC as Scientific Assistant to the Lab Director of IBM Research Australia, Technical Assistant to IBM‘s VP Cognitive Computing, and Member of the Neuroethics Advisory Group to the Director and SVP of IBM Research, Stefan founded the Brain-Inspired Computing Program of IBM Research Australia. As its Technical Lead and Senior Manager he grew it into IBM's Epilepsy Research Program spearheading the development of AI for managing neurological diseases. Working with clinical institutions such as Harvard Medical School and Boston Children’s Hospital Stefan attracted investment of over $20M and, in a world-first, built AI capable of automatically predicting epileptic seizures using a wearable. As Chief Innovation Officer of Digital Health CRC Ltd. he then managed the AI tech portfolio of the $200M incubator and fund. In his current role as our Director AI4Science Stefan has co-founded, built, and now leads a multi-$M global innovation, research and commercialisation program for transforming scientific discovery through the commoditised use of AI agents. He serves as mentor to start-ups and advisor to government agencies and clinical institutions in the US, Europe, and APAC. Stefan enjoys spreading ideas and exciting others. He is a TEDx speaker, Creative Destruction Lab Mentor and IBM Master Inventor holding 73 granted patents. IBM inducted him to the IBM Academy of Technology and to IBM's Health and Life Sciences Research Council. He has authored 65 papers in journals of publishers such as Nature, The Lancet, JAMA, Cell Press, IJCAI, AAAI, NeurIPS, and IEEE and is an Adjunct Professor at UTS, IEEE Senior Member, Member of the New York Academy of Sciences, and of Forbes Technology Council. Stefan passionately advocates for using AI for good. Follow him on LinkedIn to read, watch, and hear about his work and ideas on ABC News, Forbes, WIRED Magazine, The World Economic Forum, TED, and Popular Science. We have publications by Dr Stefan Harrer