Director, Data Science
AstraZeneca
Anshul Kanakia is a Director of Data Science and AI at the Centre for Artificial Intelligence at AstraZeneca. He currently leads the AI augmented project delivery working group, responsible for the design and development of AI models for biologics lead optimization. Anshul has a background in natural language processing (NLP), acquired during his tenure as an Applied Science in the information retreival lab at Microsoft Research. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from The University of Colorado, Boulder. His prior projects at AstraZeneca involve using NLP techniques to support clinical trial adverse event coding and adjudication, and building knowledge graphs to better analyse the pharcovigilance landscape of Sars-CoV-2 vaccine safety.
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When AI Meets Drug Development
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