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Boston, Ma, Us

Paris, France, Fr

Framingham, Massachusetts, Us

In this position, I employed my multi-disciplinary background in biology, machine learning, and data engineering to connect bio and data teams, and communicate limitations. We launched a company-wide data strategy and governance program. My problem solving expertise was instrumental in characterizing and mitigating challenges related to dataset use.• Directed the Data Science Division, as well as IT activities and Azure infrastructure. • Devised and installed ETL/QC and ML pipelines; maneuvered analysis of 2D-NMR spectra and reduced processing and analysis time from two weeks to under ten minutes

Framingham, Ma, Us

In this dual role, I oversaw data analysis and governance of drug development, preclinical, and clinical development programs. Organized digital infrastructure, and oversaw activities to convert proprietary AI methods into scalable technology. My efforts to set our direction and create a roadmap of data strategy allowed transparent governance of projects across R&D and clinical teams. I also managed IT operations for helpdesk, innovation, and infrastructure-management.• Provisioned and controlled budget for IT and Analytics Divisions; represented cross-functional Analytics Division in M&A prospects, enabled projects, delivered presentations, and finished audits to gather data for decision making.• Cultivated partnership with Advent Health and Oak Ridge National Labs to leverage clinical data from 280K+ patients via ORNL supercomputers and causal artificial intelligence methods to understand COVID-19 infection prognosis; generated predictive and prescriptive models to support treatment evaluations.

Framingham, Ma, Us

My communication, leadership, and organizational skills were utilized to guide AI and ML teams to carry out research, development, and analysis activities. I conceived and executed FAIR data principles throughout data infrastructure to expand granular query, profiling, and access to over ten years of datasets, results, and deliverables.• Steered growing Analytics and HPC teams after expansion from internal division to data analytics services provider in pharmaceutical and healthcare fields; managed client interactions, designed projects, and oversaw analysis and reporting activities. • Governed network meta-analysis web-portal launch; capabilities included interactive exploration of AI-generated causal graphs, metrics filtering and highlighting, and meta-analysis with external repositories.

Framingham, Ma, Us

With the expansion to an AI-services provider, I recruited, coached, and mentored the growing Analytics and HPC teams. We processed, integrated, and analyzed clinical, laboratory, and molecular screening data for the internal Phase 1 solid tumors clinical trial; advanced Phase 1-identification and Phase 2-validation of blood markers capable of stratifying treatment-naïve patients based on response and severity of adverse events.• Managed data analysis contract with Sanofi Pasteur; generated predictive models and identified molecular and clinical markers associated with immune response to the flu vaccine.• Applied expertise in data visualization and project delivery to present topics in 7+ analytics meetings annually; re-designed and improved company-wide public presentation material.

Framingham, Ma, Us

• Configured and managed AWS instances and developed tools to integrate Cloud and internal servers. • Followed transition to on-premises HPC solution; configured and managed new Linux servers and HPC cluster. Deployed solutions comprised directory, version control, Scrum/Agile, SQL/noSQL databases, web server, monitoring, distributed configuration, distributed computing, cluster management, environment isolation, GPU parallelization and development services.

Framingham, Ma, Us

• Defined data architecture and DevOps policies of Analytics Division encompassing project management, Agile development, and version control; guaranteed high quality, fast delivery, and traceability. • Delivered a meta-analysis for Department of Defense (DoD) that aimed to identify novel prostate cancer biomarkers and therapeutics targets, forming a long lasting partnership.• Developed and implemented ML/AI pipelines for causal inference and prescriptive modeling.• Liaised with Analytics, R&D, and Precision Medicine teams.

Framingham, Ma, Us

• Supported projects to identify novel diagnostic, predictive, and prognostic biomarkers for treatment-induced cardiomyopathy, diabetes, and obesity.• Designed, developed, and deployed algorithms for multi-OMICS processing (proteomics, lipidomics and metabolomics), integration, and analysis. • Directed software development activities; constructed signal processing system to extract/process Lipidomics Mass Spectrometry raw data and decreased time for data processing from days to minutes and allowed for de facto implementation of high-throughput Lipidomics platform.

Cambridge, Massachusetts, Us

Research focused on cancer metastasis and cancer stem cells. Developed tools to automate the analysis of molecular data and to simulate molecular Mechanisms of Action (MOAs). Following, validated the predicted results in in-vitro and in-vivo experiments.

Ph.D., Biochemistry, Molecular And Cell Biology, Bioinformatics

B.Sc. In Molecular Sciences, Major In Bioinformatics / Molecular Biology