Advisory Board

Prateek is based in Basel, Switzerland and works as an Associate Director of Data Science within the AI & Computational Science (AICS) team at Novartis – Biomedical Research. In his current position, he leads research on deep learning method development to address challenges from early drug discovery. Prateek has more than ten years of experience in both industry and academia, with expertise in applying machine learning to imaging and multi-modal datasets. Over the past decade, he has worked in several medicine and biology fields, including oncology, neurology, ophthalmology, and preclinical safety. Prateek maintains a strong interest in sample-efficient deep learning and representation learning approaches that contribute to solving fundamental problems in drug discovery. Previously, Prateek completed his PhD in machine learning for translational oncology at Werner Siemens Imaging Center & Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Tübingen, Germany. He graduated summa cum laude from the University of Tübingen and was conferred with the best PhD award from the Faculty of Medicine. His recent research contributions have been recognized internationally, including receiving the Digital Transformation of Nuclear Medicine award from the German Society of Nuclear Medicine.

Ananya is based in New York City, USA and currently a Vice President in the Wealth Management Chief Administrative Office within Morgan Stanley, focusing on creating the offshoring strategy and ensuring the successful implementation of that strategy. She has over 10 years of experience in the Financial Services industry and have worked across a multitude of different institutions ranging from small regional to Global Systematically Important Banks (GSIB). She was previously at EY, engaging inquantitative advisory services, specifically related to credit risk. She graduated from Cornell University with a B.S. in Biometry & Statistics. She loves numbers/analytics! She was born in Bangalore, India and moved to New Jersey when she was 4 years-old.

Adiam is based in Watsonville, California, USA and currently a Global R&D Strategy Manager at Driscoll's, focusing on strategic initiatives. In his current position, he supports corporate development work including new geography expansion and technology investment evaluation. He has over a decade of experience commercializing hard tech in agriculture, with deep expertise across novel active ingredients, laboratory automation, and industrial data science solutions. He was previously at Suterra, where he led the commercialization of organic active ingredients for crop protection and evaluated drone application technologies for aerial deployment, and before that at Bayer, where he implemented laboratory and seed manufacturing automation and built enterprise data science pipelines. He earned an MBA from USC's Marshall School of Business and a Master's in Agriculture and Life Sciences from Cornell University.