Gil Cheung is Chinese American. But his parents were born in Mauritius. A small island off the coast of Madagascar in the Indian Ocean. So his parents native tongue was French. They moved to Virginia where Gil was born. He grew up competing in US Math Olympiads and National Spelling bees. Gil graduated MIT with a Computer Science major but went to medical school instead. He received his medical degree and radiology residency at WashU - one of the top 3 radiology training programs in the country. Today Gil is a Partner Physician Radiologist at Kaiser Permanente.

When his daughter Sabrina was 4, she started having seizures and it kept him really busy as a father for many years. Thankfully, after years of searching and finding a solution, the seizures have stopped and given him more time to pursue his own interests.