Zifo is global technology consulting firm for Biopharma & Health industry
Responsible for innovation, industry partnerships, business strategy & relationships
Built global strategy, business plans, & global initiatives for revenue growth (~70%)
Established AI/ML innovation teams, governance, & partnerships models
Incubated new functions, the Data Products, Generative Biologics & Clinical Operations
Partnered with Health & Pharma leaders for:
Enterprise data strategy & emerging AI/ML use-cases,
Data-driven decisions for optimizing AI/ML ROI from (~10M) strategic investment
Championed Generative AI solutions including:
RAG-based assistants, LLM-based predictive models for clinical & research, and
Protein design models for in silico drug design; a combined $3.0M annual revenue
Elsevier is a global information analytics business specializing in science and health
Led global AI/ML teams, supported executive leadership & product managers
Developed patient safety reporting solutions, >40% operational efficiency for Embase
Developed LLM-based information extraction solutions for drug disovery, safety, & efficacy decisions; now part of Pharmapendium & Embiology
Chaired enterprise-wide AI/ML guild to establish:
AI/ML lifecycle, governance, & MLOPS recommendations,
Leading a global team & reporting to C-level executives
Elsevier is a global information analytics business specializing in science and health
Helped build the North America team of clinical experts & AI/ML scientists
Developed Computer Vision-based solutions for diagnostic pathways & decision support
Developed predictive solutions for ClinicalPath:
identify “patients-at-risk”; improved effectiveness by up to 80%
diagnose patient conditions to minimize clinical errors; increased correct diagnoses >26%
Developed NLP & Deep Learning systems for:
medical coding & information extraction from unstructured clinical data;
built Elsevier’s Health Knowledge graph, now part of ClinicalKey
Leadership
Strategic Planning, Project & Stakeholder Managment,
Leadership Styles (Servant, Democratic & Coach)
AI/ML
Generative AI & Biology (LLMs, RAG, Agents, LangChain, BioNemo, ESM, and more)
General AI/ML (TensorFlow, PyTorch, AWS SageMaker, OpenCV, and more)
Data Engineering (Data Products, Observability, and more)
Health Informatics (FHIR, OMOP, Epic, Practicefusion & more)
B.S. Biotechnology, Bangalore University (India), 2005
M.S. Biochemistry, Sam Higginbottoms University (India), 2007
Ph.D Bioinformatics & Systems Biology, University Of Delaware (US), 2017
Developed computational, statistics, machine-learning for genomic research
Led or managed projects, including with teams from Stanford and UPenn
Published 15+ peer-reviewed papers in areas of disease gene, biomarkers & RNA discovery
Led research plans, execution for for World Bank-funded project (USD > 5M)
Developed Bioinformatic solution & discovered new biomarkers fulfilling the objectives
Managed IT team & infrastructure to support institute-wide research projects
Served as staff Bioinformatics lead to develop research grants