Abhishek Pandey is the Global Lead of Research AI Team and Principal Research Scientist II at AbbVie, specializing in Machine Learning for Drug Discovery and Development. In his role, he leads a team of machine learning scientists focused on developing Machine Learning methods for Target identification and prioritization, ADMET, De Novo design of molecule, Tox, and preclinical/clinical precision medicine. His team is responsible for developing state-of-the-art machine learning algorithms for Discovery, Developmental Sciences, and the AbbVie-Calico alliance departments of AbbVie. Prior to joining AbbVie, Abhishek was a founding member of the AI team at Tempus Labs Inc now known as Tempus AI, helping transform the company in the field of precision medicine and market value. Abhishek holds a Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Arizona and has previous experience as an Embedded systems software engineer at Toshiba Semiconductor in the mobile multimedia division. He is in industry advisory board of CAS which is an American Chemical Society division. He regularly advises ML Commons, Chicago Biomedical Consortium, and several AI based start-ups. He has given guest lectures in University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, UChicago, Northwestern University, Argonne National Lab, Worcester Polytechnic (WPI) etc.
