Michael Mahler received his Ph.D. from the institute of molecular genetics at the University of Heidelberg (Germany). During his Ph.D. thesis, Michael Mahler worked at The Scripps Research Institute in the laboratory of Prof. Mike Pollard and Prof. Eng Tan. He is currently Vice President of Research at Inova Diagnostics. His research is focused on the B-cell autoimmune response in autoimmune diseases and the discovery of novel autoantigens which resulted in more than 300 peer reviewed journal articles as well as several patents. In addition, he works on the development and characterization of novel diagnostic assays for the diagnosis of autoimmune diseases. In the scientific community, he serves as Editor of different scientific journals and as reviewer for more than 40 journals. Michael Mahler became exposed to and interested in Artificial Intelligence as well as Precision Medicine and as a consequence, co-founded the Precision Medicine in Autoimmunity (PMA) (www.precisionmedicineautoimmunity.org) conference.