CV for Dem Gerolemou, designer at Google and Isomorphic Labs. Formerly at DeepMind and ustwo. Focusing on the future of scientific exploration and using AI to tackle climate change and to redefine drug discovery. Passionate about building a fairer and healthier world
Experience
Google (Climate AI)
I’m currently a member of the Climate AI team within Google Research where we identify, incubate and launch products and services to tackle the climate crisis using emerging technologies.
A large focus in this role has been leading UX for Project Green Light, a tool that uses AI to reduce traffic emissions. Beyond this, I’m incubating new workstreams across the climate vertical and in Google Research’s Science domain.
Isomorphic Labs
I currently lead Isomorphic Labs’ UX function in a 20% capacity, focusing on designing the AI-powered tools that our internal teams use to discover new drugs.
Google (Health)
I was a founding member of the Platform Experience team, working across Visual Design, UX and Service Design to deliver Google Health’s clinical tools vision to partners. We operated as an arm of the Patient Intelligence team.
My main focus on the team was to drive the scalability of our interface design to enable experimentation. We began by shipping a first party application, but explored third party integrations and delivery via API. We shipped powerful AI-powered clinical tooling to partners across US healthcare systems.
Earlier in this role, my primary focus was building a scalable design system for our mobile healthcare products, notably shipping our flagship mobile product for clinicians—Care Studio Mobile.
In this role, I also joined Alphabet’s rapid COVID-19 response team to help prepare the UK for the incoming pandemic, collaborating across organisations to deliver key tooling.
DeepMind
Each year, thousands of people die in hospitals from preventable conditions, like sepsis and acute kidney injury, because the warning signs aren’t picked up and acted on in time. We built Streams in close collaboration with nurses and doctors to help address this problem.
I was a member of DeepMind Health’s design team leading visual design for several core Streams features including vital signs, data visualisation and the patient profile.
ustwo
I joined ustwo as an intern looking to specialise in UX design. In my time on the team, I worked across multiple sectors including healthcare, automotive, retail and fintech while also focusing on new business opportunities, notably taking on an extensive amount of external talks and writing a chapter for the studio’s published book on the future of autonomous vehicles. I was promoted twice in my time at ustwo.
I enjoyed contributing beyond my core responsibilities including driving an extensive outreach programme, offering consultation for startups via ustwo Adventure, new business and written publications.
Freelance
Following graduation I took on various freelance projects across design and development focusing on the creative industries such as fashion and illustration. I stopped taking on new work in 2016 to focus my time and energy on my full time job.
- Clients include Anderson Belts, CCD Insights, Cos Gerolemou, Indigofera, IPR London, Mr Bingo and Studio Nicholson
- While a designer by trade, I built each site to spec, working mostly with PHP to build self-service sites for clients to manage their own content, more recently adopting Jekyll
Moving Brands
Internship at leading branding agency, Moving Brands. I worked on multiple pitches, a flagship rebranding project and a research-led proposal on sonic branding opportunities.
Previous Experience
- Designer (Hewoco)
- Technical Lead (•••• exhibition)
- Social Media Coordinator, Bar Staff (The Railway Inn)
- Product Design Intern (Cyber Interactive)
- Student Ambassador (University of Southampton)
- Summer Camp Teacher (Haberdashers' Boys' School)
- Design Lead (In Situ exhibition)
- Designer (Hüp Studio)
- Shoot Assistant (Geocast)
- DevOps Placement (Lloyd's of London)
More Info
Education & Achievements
- Co-Active Coaching Fundamentals (ICF Accredited, CTI, 2024)
- Google for Clinicians community contributions award (Google, 2022)
- London Engineering org community contributions award (Google, 2020)
- Award for Excellence for contributions to Alphabet’s COVID response (Google, 2020)
- Deteriorating Patients and Rapid Response Systems Award (Partnership with RFH PARRT, Health Service Journal, 2019)
- Selected as one of 100 founding members of Founders of the Future, attending the 10 Downing Street launch with my friend + former boss. "The team at Founders Forum announced their first 100 Founders of the Future; a group of gifted 16-35 year-olds deemed to be the next generation of tech entrepreneurs selected from across Europe, with widely varied experience, based on merit, using artificial intelligence and peer recommendations."
- Rising Star Award Finalist (Design Week, 2017)
- University of Southampton (BA (Hons) Graphic Arts, 2:1, 2011–2014)
- International placement (Dalian, Shanghai, Suzhou, Wuxi, Yixing, Mar 2013)
Related Volunteering
- Mentor (Founders of the Future, 2017–2020)
- Mentor (Creative Mentor Network, 2018)
- Teacher (Mayor’s Fund for London, 2017)
Speaking & Outreach
- Aimsun
- Airbnb
- BrainStation
- Creative Mentor Network (mentor)
- DeepMind
- Founders of the Future
- Future London Academy
- Graphic Design Educators' Network
- Helix Centre
- In2Science
- InProduct
- London Transport Museum
- NASA JPL
- One Day Out conference
- Rosenfeld Media
- Royal Society
- Shoreditch House
- Untangle the Web
- Visiting lecturer (across multiple universities)
Links
2024
- Boston's partnership with Google is its latest AI experiment (Axios)
- Boston is turning to Google AI to help with road traffic (Quartz)
- City of Boston Partners with Google on Traffic Signal Optimization (Boston.gov)
- How Google uses AI to reduce stop-and-go traffic on your route — and fight fuel emissions (The Keyword, Google)
- Google is using AI in an attempt to improve traffic flow (NBC News)
- The Smart, Cheap Fix for Slow, Dumb Traffic Lights (Wallstreet Journal)
- We’re launching a new coalition to scale nature-based carbon removal (The Keyword, Google)
- Climate Tech Fundamentals panel event (Rosenfeld Media)
- Why Google is Fast Company’s World Changing Company of the Year (Fast Company)
- How Google is using AI to help one U.S. city reduce traffic and emissions (CBS News)
- Can AI solve Seattle's traffic woes? Google thinks so (Kuow.org)
- 24 good things already happening in 2024 (Mashable)
- California wants to reduce traffic. The Newsom administration thinks AI can help (LA Times)
- Can AI improve traffic in California? (NBC Bay Area)
2023
- Greater Manchester working with Google on Green Light project (Highway News)
- Google's Green Light project retimes traffic lights for 30% fewer stops (New Atlas)
- HLTH23: Google Cloud rolls out new generative AI search tools for doctors, life sciences companies (Fierce Healthcare)
- Google announces new generative AI search capabilities for doctors (CNBC)
- HLTH '23: Google Cloud and healthcare leaders share how generative AI is transforming the industry (Google Cloud)
- Google Is Rapidly Becoming A Healthcare Powerhouse (Forbes)
2022
- MEDITECH and Google Health highlight pilot phase collaboration (MEDITECH)
- Google’s Healthcare Data Platform, Care Studio, Is Partnering With One Of The Largest EHR Systems (Forbes)
2021
- Google rolls out mobile app version of Care Studio (Mobile Health News)
- Interview (Lovers Magazine)
2020
- Interview (Creative Lives in Progress)
2019
- DeepMind’s health team joins Google Health (Google)
- DeepMind, artificial intelligence and the future of the NHS (The Times)
- DeepMind's new AI predicts kidney injury two days before it happens (Wired)
- Using AI to give doctors a 48-hour head start on life-threatening illness (DeepMind)
- A clinically applicable approach to continuous prediction of future acute kidney injury (Nature)
- Evaluation of a digitally-enabled care pathway for acute kidney injury management in hospital emergency admissions (npc Digital Medicine)
- Team behind pioneering kidney care app scoops national award (Royal Free NHS Trust)
- Interview (Future London Academy)
- Implementation of a Digitally Enabled Care Pathway (Part 1): Impact on Clinical Outcomes and Associated Health Care Costs (JMIR)
2018
- Scaling Streams with Google (DeepMind)
- Artificial intelligence 'did not miss a single urgent case' (BBC)
- Astronauts, Bees and Sofas: Lessons for Those Starting a Career in Design (Medium)
2017
- Google DeepMind’s Streams technology branded ‘phenomenal’ (Digital Health)
- Interview (Creative Lives in Progress)
- Rising Star Award Finalist (Design Week)
- New mother receives pioneering kidney treatment after app detects life-threatening illness (Evening Standard)
- New app helping to improve patient care (Royal Free NHS Trust)
2016
- The Big Surface Debate (ustwo)
- Founders of the Future launch event, No.10 Downing Street (Founders of the Future)