Sanmitra Bhattacharya
Vice President, Data Science | AI Center of Excellence
Sanmitra is a vice president of Data Science in the AI Center of Excellence, Risk & Financial Advisory, based in Morristown, NJ. Sanmitra brings more than 15 years of experience in applying data science and machine learning to biomedical research within life sciences and healthcare organizations. Throughout his career, Sanmitra has led numerous applied AI initiatives, addressing areas such as financial crimes, healthcare fraud, legal discovery, and Generative AI guardrails. He has provided technical leadership in deploying natural language processing and machine learning techniques in pharmacovigilance and medical affairs. Additionally, he has overseen AI projects focused on protein language modeling and knowledge graphs, contributing to enzyme optimization for genetic therapies and assisting scientists in designing novel gene therapies for oncology. Sanmitra received his PhD in Computer Science, with his research concentrating on the applications of NLP and ML techniques to uncover novel insights from biomedical and social media data. He has published over 30 academic papers on machine learning, natural language processing, and Generative AI in leading conferences and journals.