Kimberly Powell

The guest biography on the interview page that Emerj published on November 17, 2016 states that she worked as a hardware engineer at DOME imaging systems, mainly on FPGA design, and later as product manager of diagnostic imaging display systems in the medical business of Planar Systems; the speaker page of Girl Geek X lists the same two positions.⁠[1][2]

The speaker biographies published by MIT Technology Review for EmTech Digital 2023, and those of HLTH and BIO, state that she spent her early career in engineering and product management of diagnostic display systems at Planar Systems.⁠[3][4][5]

The author biography on the NVIDIA blog and the speaker biographies of MIT Technology Review, HLTH and BIO state that she joined NVIDIA in 2008 with responsibility for establishing NVIDIA GPUs as the accelerator platform for medical imaging instruments; The New York TimesThe New York TimesThe New York Times is an American morning daily newspaper published in New York City. Founded in 1851, it is published by The New York Times Company.Open the full entry’s article of November 11, 2026 also gives 2008 as the year she joined NVIDIA.⁠[6][3][4][5][7]

These biographies state that before her present role she led NVIDIA’s higher education and research business, along with strategic evangelism programs, NVIDIA AI Labs and the NVIDIA Inception program for AI startups. The pages give different membership figures for that program: over 3,000 on the HLTH 2019 page, over 7,000 on the HLTH 2024 and BIO 2026 pages, and over 10,000 on the EmTech Digital 2023 page.⁠[6][4][8][5][3]

Fast Company’s article of December 4, 2025 states that she had led NVIDIA’s health efforts for 17 years.⁠[9]

The speaker page of Girl Geek X lists her as a speaker at the NVIDIA Girl Geek Dinner 2015 and states that she leads a global technical team working with researchers and engineers.⁠[2]

The New York Times’s article of November 11, 2026, drawing on her LinkedInLinkedInLinkedIn is a social networking platform for professionals. It was founded in 2002 by Reid Hoffman and others, launched in 2003, and listed on the New York Stock Exchange in 2011; after Microsoft acquired it for approximately $26.2 billion in 2016, it became a wholly owned Microsoft subsidiary. Its revenue comes from membership subscriptions, advertising, and recruitment solutions.Open the full entry profile, states that she was promoted to senior director of artificial intelligence business development in 2016. AI Business’s article of September 15, 2016 calls her Senior Director of Business Development for Deep Learning and AI and describes her role as focused on NVIDIA’s AI ecosystem; the interview that Emerj published on November 17, 2016 calls her senior director of business development, leading a team of business development and strategic alliance managers focused on new markets in deep learning, data analytics and AI.⁠[7][10][1]

AI Business published an interview with her on September 15, 2016, ahead of her keynote “The Deep Learning Revolution” at The AI Summit in San Francisco on September 28–29. In it she said that deep learning “has led to the latest AI revolution – the algorithms are data driven and accessible with GPU computing,” and that the number of organizations NVIDIA enables had grown from a couple dozen three years earlier to more than 4,000.⁠[10]

Emerj published Dan Faggella’s interview with her on November 17, 2016. The summary on the page states that she explained the difference between GPUs and CPUs, discussed how GPUs and deep learning were becoming easier to use, and described efforts by NVIDIA and others to make deep learning accessible to small businesses and startups.⁠[1]

The New York Times’s article of November 11, 2026 states that by late 2017 she had been appointed vice president of health care; the article adds that she attends technology conferences around the world and delivers speeches on behalf of the company.⁠[7]

The author biography on the NVIDIA blog states that she is responsible for the company’s worldwide healthcare business, including hardware and software platforms for accelerated computing, AI and visualization that serve medical imaging, life sciences, drug discovery and healthcare analytics.⁠[6]

In an episode of the Fortune Brainstorm podcast that Fortune published on November 5, 2020, she spoke, as NVIDIA’s vice president and general manager of health care, about the use of AI and supercomputing against the coronavirus pandemic. She said, “We’ve really essentially built a time machine for these researchers,” and said of drug-candidate screening that “we did it in 12 hours on the world’s largest supercomputer”; the article states that the screening covered 12 billion potential drug candidates and would otherwise have taken three months. She also said, “We created an A.I. model with the NIH that does lung segmentation and a CT scan.” The hosts were Michal Lev-Ram and Brian O’Keefe of Fortune.⁠[11]

On November 9, 2021 she published an article under her byline on the NVIDIA blog introducing NVIDIA Clara Holoscan, an AI computing platform built on NVIDIA AGX Orin for processing streaming data from medical devices, scaling from devices to edge servers and NVIDIA DGX systems in data centers, and aimed at uses such as robot-assisted surgery, interventional radiology and radiation therapy planning. The article names the NVIDIA Inception members AJA Video Systems, KAYA Instruments and us4us as suppliers of I/O cards for the platform, and the ultrasound research hardware maker Verasonics. The article invites readers to tune in to her healthcare special address at that GTC.⁠[12]

On January 12, 2022 she published an article under her byline on the NVIDIA blog about research led by Stanford UniversityStanford UniversityStanford University is a research university in California founded by Leland and Jane Stanford in 1885 and opened in 1891.Open the full entry School of Medicine with NVIDIA, Oxford Nanopore Technologies, GoogleGoogleGoogle is an American technology company founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin and incorporated in 1998. It became an Alphabet subsidiary in 2015. Its businesses include internet search, advertising, software platforms, cloud computing, and artificial intelligence.Open the full entry, Baylor College of Medicine and UC Santa Cruz: the sequencing method set the first Guinness World Record for the fastest DNA sequencing technique, at 5 hours and 2 minutes, and was described in the New England Journal of Medicine; its variant-calling step used NVIDIA Clara Parabricks.⁠[13]

On April 4, 2022 she published an article under her byline on the NVIDIA blog summarizing the healthcare content of that year’s online GTC (more than 200,000 registrations), including a medical-grade Clara Holoscan platform for real-time edge AI designed to meet industry regulatory standards; Oxford Nanopore Technologies’ plan to power its PromethION compute towers with NVIDIA DGX Station A100 systems; and applications by Janssen, Absci, UF Health and others.⁠[14]

On March 21, 2023, during GTC, NVIDIA issued a press release announcing a collaboration with MedtronicMedtronicMedtronic plc is a healthcare technology company founded in Minneapolis in 1949 that acquired Covidien in 2015.Open the full entry to integrate NVIDIA healthcare and edge AI technologies (NVIDIA Clara, Holoscan and IGX) into the GI Genius intelligent endoscopy module developed and manufactured by Cosmo Pharmaceuticals. Quoted in the release as NVIDIA’s vice president of healthcare, she said, “Artificial intelligence is a powerful tool that can increase the speed, efficiency and effectiveness of global health systems,” and “We’re collaborating with Medtronic to accelerate AI innovation by enabling a software-defined business model.”⁠[15]

MIT Technology Review’s EmTech Digital 2023 was held at the MIT Media Lab in Cambridge, MassachusettsMassachusettsMassachusetts (officially the Commonwealth of Massachusetts) is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States; its capital and largest city is Boston. One of the original 13 states, it ratified the U.S. Constitution on February 6, 1788, the sixth state to do so. Its population in the 2020 census (April 1, 2020) was 7,029,917.Open the full entry, and online on May 2–3, 2023; the conference’s speaker page lists her as the speaker of the session “Unlocking the Code of Life.”⁠[3]

The author page of the NVIDIA blog lists her article of November 28, 2023, “NVIDIA BioNeMo Enables Generative AI for Drug Discovery on AWSAmazon Web ServicesAmazon Web Services (AWS) is the cloud computing business of Amazon. Launched in July 2002, it made its public debut with the Amazon S3 storage service on March 14, 2006, and has since added hundreds of services, including Amazon EC2; its segment net sales were about $46.0 billion in the third quarter of 2026.Open the full entry.”⁠[6]

On January 8, 2024 she published an article under her byline on the NVIDIA blog stating that the generative AI platform NVIDIA BioNeMo offered more than a dozen models and cloud services, that BioNeMo cloud APIs were being released in beta that month with Recursion as the first hosting partner, and listing adopters including Terray Therapeutics, Innophore, Insilico Medicine, OneAngstrom and Deloitte; the article states that healthcare customers and partners consume well over $1 billion of NVIDIA GPU computing a year.⁠[16]

STAT published an article by Matthew Herper on January 9, 2024 stating that NVIDIA was presenting at the J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference in a packed small meeting room at the Westin St. Francis in San Francisco, setting out why it thinks AI running on NVIDIA computers could dramatically increase the number of new medicines while reducing their cost, ushering in an age of “digital biology”; the article states that the room erupted in applause when she finished her presentation.⁠[17]

The Medtronic newsroom published an interview titled “Why NVIDIA is bullish on AI’s future in healthcare” on March 11, 2024. In it she said, “It’s not about completely automating all processes. It’s about augmenting them,” said that Medtronic “recognized early that AI can be a co-pilot in healthcare,” and said that NVIDIA had worked in healthcare for over a decade.⁠[18]

The author page of the NVIDIA blog lists her article of June 2, 2024, “Leading Medical Centers in Taiwan Adopt NVIDIA Accelerated Computing to Advance Biomedical Research.”⁠[6]

Al JazeeraAl JazeeraAl Jazeera is a news media network headquartered in Doha, Qatar, founded by Sheikh Hamad ibn Khalifa Al Thani, emir of Qatar.Open the full entry published an article by Erin Hale on June 5, 2024 stating that she spoke that day at NVIDIA’s AI Summit in Taipei, held during Computex. She said, “Healthcare is probably the most impactful utility of generative AI that there will be,” that “drug discovery is essentially an infinite problem,” and, “You can imagine how generative AI is going to have really important utility in every stage of surgery.” The article mentions NVIDIA’s collaborations with Johnson & JohnsonJohnson & JohnsonJohnson & Johnson is an American healthcare company founded in 1886, headquartered in New Brunswick, New Jersey, and listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker JNJ.Open the full entry and GE Healthcare announced that March.⁠[19]

The author page of the NVIDIA blog lists her article of November 12, 2024, “Japan Develops Next-Generation Drug Design, Healthcare Robotics and Digital Health Platforms.”⁠[6]

On January 13, 2025 NVIDIA issued a press release in San Francisco announcing, during the J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference, work with IQVIA, Illumina, Mayo Clinic and Arc Institute: IQVIA was using NVIDIA AI Foundry to build custom foundation models and developing agentic AI solutions; Illumina would offer its DRAGEN analysis software on NVIDIA accelerated computing within the Illumina Connected Analytics platform; Mayo Clinic was developing pathology foundation models from 20 million whole-slide images and 10 million associated patient records and planned to deploy NVIDIA DGX Blackwell systems; and Arc Institute was collaborating with NVIDIA on foundation models for biology across DNA, RNA and proteins. In the release she said, “AI offers an exceptional opportunity to advance healthcare and life sciences.” The same day she published the article “NVIDIA and IQVIA Build Domain-Expert Agentic AI for Healthcare and Life Sciences” under her byline on the NVIDIA blog.⁠[20][6]

HLTH published an episode of its HLTH Executive Series podcast featuring her, titled “How AI Is Revolutionizing Healthcare,” on February 18, 2025; the episode description lists AI-designed drugs already in clinical trials, generative AI tools supporting care before, during and after surgery, wider access to medical expertise through low-cost miniaturized devices, and guardrails for privacy, security and bias. The page notes that the series is sponsored by NVIDIA.⁠[21]

TD Securities published, as an episode of its TD Cowen Insights podcast on March 21, 2025, her conversation with the analysts Joshua Buchalter and Brendan Smith at TD Cowen’s 45th Annual Health Care Conference, recorded on March 3, 2025. She said that “healthcare is going to be one of the most important industries for artificial intelligence,” that if an AI-discovered drug won FDA approval “it is going to be a watershed moment,” called 2025 “a breakout year of the digital health agents,” and said that “the whole hospital is going to be a robot.”⁠[22]

On March 18, 2025, during GTC, NVIDIA issued a press release announcing work with GE HealthCare on autonomous X-ray and ultrasound imaging, for which GE HealthCare was using Isaac for Healthcare, NVIDIA’s new medical device simulation platform, available in early access. In the release she said, “The healthcare industry is one of the most important applications of AI,” because demand for healthcare services far exceeds supply.⁠[23]

Fox Business published an article by Sophia Compton and Brooke Curto on November 19, 2025 in which she said in an interview with the network, “We are an AI and accelerated computing platform company,” and “It’s very clear that demand for healthcare services is far outstripping the supply of healthcare professionals”; of surgical robotics she said, “This is the first time we’ve ever had AI actually moving the robots,” and she estimated that documentation tools save doctors “something like 30% of their time” in a day. Companies named in the article include GE HealthCare, Moon Surgical, Johnson & Johnson, Abridge, OpenEvidence and Aidoc.⁠[24]

Fast Company published Mark Sullivan’s question-and-answer interview with her on December 4, 2025 as part of its AI 20 series for 2025, naming her as one of the honorees. In it she said that it “costs several billions to get a drug to market,” called DeepMindGoogle DeepMindGoogle DeepMind is Google’s artificial intelligence research organization, formed in April 2023 by merging DeepMind, which Google acquired in 2014, with the Brain team from Google Research, and led by CEO Demis Hassabis. It developed AlphaGo, AlphaFold, and the Gemini family of models, and Hassabis and John Jumper received the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for AlphaFold’s protein structure prediction work.Open the full entry’s AlphaFold one of the most consequential contributions to healthcare today, described molecular design as “a near infinite search space,” and said that NVIDIA builds full systems “not because healthcare lives in a chip.” The partner she cited was the oncology company ConcertAI, which simulates clinical trials with digital twins.⁠[9]

MedCity News published an article by Katie Adams on December 14, 2025 that calls her NVIDIA’s general manager of healthcare. She said, “We’re not trying to become a healthcare company,” and “We’re not a huge company, but we’ll go really deep with our amazing thought leaders and domain experts,” and said that radiology was NVIDIA’s first and most obvious healthcare application.⁠[25]

A presentation on NVIDIA’s investor relations site, “NVIDIA Healthcare and Life Sciences,” dated January 12, 2026, bears her name on the cover with the title VP of Healthcare and Lifesciences; it lists the open biomedical models of the Clara family Proteina, RNAPro, CodonFM, KERMT and ReaSyn v2 (RNAPro and ReaSyn v2 marked as new) and a BioNeMo dataset of 455,000 synthetic proteins, and states, with Menlo Ventures data for 2025 as its source, that the healthcare industry is deploying AI at three times the rate of the U.S.United StatesThe United States is a federal country in North America made up of 50 states, the District of Columbia as the seat of government, and territories such as Puerto Rico and Guam; its capital is Washington, D.C. The Continental Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776. The 2020 census (April 1, 2020) counted a resident population of 331,449,281, and the 435 seats of the House of Representatives are apportioned among the states on the basis of the census.Open the full entry economy. An article by Isha Salian on the NVIDIA blog of January 13, 2026, about the J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference in San Francisco, links the audio recording of her special address there and this presentation, and states that in it she discusses AI’s impact across healthcare.⁠[26][27]

Healthcare Brew published an article by Cassie McGrath on February 6, 2026 that presents the history and future of NVIDIA’s healthcare work through her account, covering the place of molecular dynamics simulation on supercomputers around 2010, the Holoscan and IGX systems NVIDIA designed for imaging and medical devices, the collaboration with GE HealthCare over the previous 12 months, and “physical AI, where AI is embodied in the physical world.”⁠[28]

NVIDIA’s list of recommended sessions for GTC 2026 lists her session S81806, “How Open Models, Agents, and Physical AI Are Fueling a Flywheel of Healthcare Innovation,” at 3:00 p.m. Pacific time on March 16. The New York Times’s article of November 11, 2026 states that in March 2026 she spoke at GTC, NVIDIA’s annual developer conference in San Jose, about using AI to aid breakthroughs in health care and biology.⁠[29][7]

On June 1, 2026, during GTC Taipei, NVIDIA issued a press release announcing work with Foxconn and leading medical centers in Taiwan to bring agentic and physical AI to the “Healthy Taiwan” initiative, including Foxconn’s CoDoctor AI platform, its CoDoClaw clinical agent system, the nursing collaborative robot Nurabot and the Scrub Bot. In the release she said, “The next era of healthcare is being powered by agentic AI.”⁠[30]

The speaker page of BIO 2026 lists the Main Stage session of June 24, 2026, 9:00–10:30 a.m., “Driven by Innovation: A Conversation with Ashley Magargee, CEO, Genentech and Kimberly Powell, Vice President, Healthcare, NVIDIA.”⁠[5]

On October 21, 2026, during GTC Berlin, NVIDIA issued a press release announcing the open model RFD4-Proteina released with the UW Medicine Institute for Protein Design, next-generation adaptive radiotherapy developed by Siemens Healthineers with NVIDIA, and scientific agents built by several companies on the BioNeMo platform. In the release she said, “Agentic and physical AI are opening new possibilities across medicine.”⁠[31]

On November 11, 2026 The New York Times published an article by Ryan Mac, Tripp Mickle and Georgia Gee stating, on the account of five people who worked at the company and spoke under the condition of anonymity to describe sensitive information, that Jensen HuangJensen HuangJensen Huang is the co-founder, president, and CEO of NVIDIA and has served on its board since the company was founded in 1993. He has a background in electrical engineering education and the semiconductor industry, and under his leadership NVIDIA’s business expanded from graphics chips to GPU general-purpose computing, artificial intelligence, and data center computing platforms.Open the full entry “also had an extramarital relationship with an executive who reports to him,” and that the executive was “Kimberly Powell, Nvidia’s vice president of health care.” The article states that the matter had not previously appeared in the press; it quotes NVIDIA’s code of conduct, under which employees are instructed to “avoid situations where our actions create conflict” including “personal relationships,” and quotes the company as stating that it “promptly investigates reports of misconduct.” It gives her age as 48.⁠[7]

On the account of two of those people, the article states that during an NVIDIA conference in San Jose, CaliforniaCaliforniaCalifornia is a U.S. state on the Pacific coast; its capital is Sacramento and its largest city is Los Angeles. California was admitted to the Union on September 9, 1850, as the 31st state. Its population at the 2020 Census (April 1, 2020) was 39,538,223, the largest of any state.Open the full entry, in March 2026 the two “were captured on video being affectionate” at a hotel, and writes that the newspaper has not seen the video; it places the scene during GTC, NVIDIA’s annual developer conference in San Jose, that March, when NVIDIA executives were at a nearby hotel for meetings. On the account of three people briefed on the incident, it states that a bystander captured the interaction on their phone, that Huang’s security “witnessed the bystander with their phone and sequestered them” and made the person an offer to sign a nondisclosure agreement. The article also states, on the account of the five people, that the relationship “has been discussed inside the company.”⁠[7]

The article states that when the newspaper reached Huang by phone on Wednesday, November 11, 2026, and asked him “about his relationship with Ms. Powell,” he said, “I don’t think you should be talking to me directly,” and then hung up; it states that NVIDIA “declined to provide a statement” and that she “did not immediately respond to a request for comment.” The article’s latest update is marked 5:27 p.m. Eastern time on November 11, 2026.⁠[7]

ReutersReutersReuters is an international news agency founded in London in 1851 by Paul Julius Reuter and is now the news business of Thomson Reuters. It provides text, photo, video, and graphics coverage to media and institutional clients and distributes it through channels such as Reuters Connect.Open the full entry’s dispatch of the same day relays the article as stating that Huang “allegedly had a relationship with Kimberly Powell, Nvidia’s vice president of health care,” and states, “Nvidia did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment.”⁠[32]

The speaker biographies of MIT Technology Review, HLTH and BIO state that she holds a B.S. in electrical engineering with a concentration in computer engineering from Northeastern University; the BIO page places the university in Massachusetts. The biography on Emerj’s 2016 interview page adds a graduate certificate in project management from Boston University and an executive education certificate in product design, development and management from the MIT Sloan School of Management.⁠[3][4][5][1]

The NVIDIA blog author page, the conference speaker pages and NVIDIA’s press releases of 2023–2026 call her vice president of healthcare; Fortune’s 2020 article and the Radiology Business page call her vice president and general manager of health care; MedCity News’s 2025 article calls her general manager of healthcare; the cover of NVIDIA’s January 2026 presentation gives VP of Healthcare and Lifesciences, and NVIDIA’s list of recommended sessions for GTC 2026 gives VP of Healthcare and Life Sciences; and the MobiHealthNews article gives VP of health.⁠[6][31][11][33][25][26][29][34]

MobiHealthNews published an article by Laura Lovett (undated on the page) stating that she was interviewed during the GPU Technology Conference, in the week in which Jensen Huang unveiled Clara AI, a toolkit for radiologists with 13 classification and segmentation AIs. She said, “I think that computational biology is the future,” “This is going to take an army,” and, “I think AI and genomics is going to be a concentration moving forward, and a real opportunity.” The article notes that NVIDIA invited MobiHealthNews to the conference and paid for travel and accommodation.⁠[34]

A video page of Radiology Business (undated on the page) states that she was interviewed by the publication at the RSNA 2025 meeting and said, “We started the AI revolution, and as you can see here at RSNA, it’s a huge topic and a huge theme,” and, “AI is pervasive. It’s everywhere.”⁠[33]

An undated article on the NVIDIA blog by Isha Salian states that she spoke at the J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference, which was held virtually, and announces her participation in a Washington PostThe Washington PostThe Washington Post is an American daily newspaper founded in Washington in 1877, known for its role in the Pentagon Papers case and the Watergate investigation. Run by the Meyer–Graham family for eighty years from 1933, it has been owned personally by Jeff Bezos since 2013.Open the full entry Live conversation on AI in healthcare on January 13; the article refers to 2020 as a past year. In her remarks she said, “We’re at a pivotal moment to unlock a new, AI-accelerated era of discovery and medicine,” and “We can produce today more biomedical data in about three months than the entire 300-year history of healthcare.”⁠[35]

The article states that in her remarks she said downloads of NVIDIA Clara had grown fivefold in the past year and that more than 1,000 healthcare startups were members of the NVIDIA Inception program, four times as many as in 2017; she also cited UCSF’s use of NVIDIA GPUs for cryo-electron microscopy, the use of the Cambridge-1 supercomputer by GlaxoSmithKline and the U.K.’s National Health Service, and Oxford Nanopore Technologies’ use of NVIDIA GPUs in its sequencers.⁠[35]

NVIDIA: Official website: https://www.nvidia.com/ (opens in a new window).⁠[36]

Planar Systems: Official website: https://www.planar.com/ (opens in a new window).⁠[37]