Octavian Filoti | Associate Director, Digital Capability Management, AI Data and Technology Lab
Bristol Myers Squibb

Octavian (Tavi) Filoti is an Associate Director at BMS, leading the AI Enablement Lab, and currently working on emerging methods and technologies. Tavi started out as a Scientist, culminating with a Ph.D. in Nuclear Physics, only that along the way, Data Science sent him on-course with Technology, which started with an M.S. in Computer Science, and continued with technology engineering positions, and along the way thirteen patents and counting, mainly during his five years of work at IBM Watson question answering system. Being on the cutting edge of science to discover novel therapies and delivering technologies that patients need is where his science and technology allegiances do intersect. Tavi is passionate about machine learning and artificial intelligence as essential tools in bridging the science with the data.