This leadership role for the Applied AI group of AI4R will be tasked with strong technical, team and project leadership, aligning with biomedical subject matter experts to deeply understand ML opportunities in drug discovery, assessment of the model landscape, leading model benchmarking, and applying the right AI approaches, algorithms, models and workflows to maximize impact on key domains areas of biomedical research that will potentially lead to developing better drugs, faster. By utilizing both internal and external R&D data with the power of data science, predictive models, generative AI, and machine learning, our objective is to identify new targets, create more effective therapeutic molecules, better predict drug pharmacokinetics and safety risks, refine clinical trial design, and significantly shorten development cycles.