Do you want to work in data-driven healthcare research? Are you curious how AI influences the healthcare industry?
Join us on Tuesday, May 13th, starting from 5 pm in room SG 1 for a workshop on career paths and research insights, followed by a networking apéro. Please register via the QR code below or under go.epfl.ch/siam-ai.
We are happy to welcome Kostas Sechidis from Novartis, Sebastien Benzekry from INRIA’s INSERM COMPO group, and Vincent Stimper from Isomorphic Labs. Please find excerpts of their bios below.
Kostas Sechidis is Associate Director of Data Science and research scientist at Novartis where he specializes in exploratory analysis for biomarker discovery, digital biomarker development, and assessing treatment effect heterogeneity in clinical trials. He did his PhD at the University of Manchester and subsequently worked as a postdoctoral researcher with AstraZeneca and Roche.
Sebastien Benzekry is a research scientist at Inria where he leads the INSERM project team Computational Pharmacology and Clinical Oncology (COMPO) modelling data arising from oncology to enhance therapeutic management, inform and design clinical trials, and test biological hypotheses. He did his PhD at Aix-Marseille University followed by a PostDoc at the Center for Cancer and Systems Biology, Tufts Univ, Boston, MA.
Vincent Stimper is a Machine Learning Research Scientist at the Google DeepMind’s sister company Isomorphic Labs where they use machine learning to develop novel drugs for challenging diseases. Before joining Isomorphic Labs in 2024 he did his PhD at the University of Cambridge and the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems and completed internships at Microsoft, Amazon and the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research.
