BIOTECHX WEBINAR IN PARTNERSHIP WITH SCIBITE

George Georghiou, Senior Knowledge Strategy Manager at Elsevier

 

Bio: George has spent the last 9 years of his career focusing on data curation and trying to come up with best ways for solving many of the practical issues that many scientists come across when dealing with large volumes of data. Having done his PhD in Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology at Stony Brook University, and a post-doctoral stint at the University of Dundee, he found the bench wasn’t where he wanted to be. Originally diving into this vast and incredible field of work at EMBL-EBI as a part of the Gene Ontology Annotation Project and UniProtKB, he found a new passion for data curation, engineering, governance, and FAIRification. He took the skills he learned from his time at the EBI and went on to work in Novartis, specifically in the Novartis Knowledge Center where he spent much of his time expanding his knowledge of natural language processing as well as piloting high-throughput annotation pipelines for biomedical literature, clinical trial data, patents, and grants in a FAIRified data model so it can be leveraged by the entirety of Novartis. George recently joined Elsevier’s Data Science for Life Science team as a Senior Knowledge Strategy Manager, where he is working on FAIRifying and harmonizing Elsevier data for both internal and customer AI and machine learning initiatives.