Stephen Aylward

Stephen Aylward is a leader in the Global Developer Relations team at NVIDIA, specializing in AI-enabled medical technologies. His collaborations focus on combining hardware acceleration with open-source software for the discovery and support of next generation medical AI devices. Applications being investigated range from point-of-care ultrasound devices for in-field trauma assessment to autonomous robots for surgery. Dr. Aylward’s background includes leading NIH, DARPA, and DoD-funded medical research for over 25 years as well as leading the development of numerous open-source platforms, including the Insight Toolkit (ITK), 3D Slicer, and MONAI. He is also a MICCAI Fellow, an adjunct professor in computer science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC), chair of the MONAI advisory board, and an advisory board member for the Vanderbilt Institute for Surgery and Engineering and for Johns Hopkins Laboratory for Computational Sensing and Robotics. Previously, he was senior director of Strategic Initiatives at Kitware and a tenured professor in radiology at UNC.