Andre Esteva is an American entrepreneur and AI scientist. He is the CEO and Co-Founder of ArteraAI, and was previously Head of Medical AI at Salesforce Research. He has worked at Google Research, Sandia National Labs, GE Healthcare, and has co-founded four companies with a combined market cap of $2.2B. Andre was named to the 2025 TIME100 Health list—TIME Magazine’s recognition of the most influential people in health—and to Modern Healthcare’s 40 Under 40 for 2025.

His research has been cited over 25,000 times. His publications have appeared on the covers of Nature and Nature Medicine—the first to show AI matching doctor’s performance at diagnosis. His work has been featured in Cell, The Lancet, NeurIPS, TIME, and widely covered by the WSJ, Fortune, BBC, The Economist, and hundreds of outlets.

He earned his PhD in Computer Vision at Stanford, where his research was in deep learning and artificial intelligence, with applications built for dermatology, drug screening, neuroscience, and psychiatry. He finished undergraduate degrees with highest honors in Electrical Engineering and Pure Math from UT-Austin, where he was Engineering Valedictorian.