Shameer Khader

Shameer Khader is Senior Director of Machine Learning Research at AstraZeneca, USA. Shameer leads a global team that leverages trans-disciplinary (biomedical, healthcare, and clinical) big data and machine intelligence to accelerate drug discovery and development. He has more than a decade of experience building and leading bioinformatics and data science in academia and industry. Shameer obtained his PhD in computational biology from the National Center for Biological Sciences (Bengaluru, India) and completed his post-doctoral training in computation genomics and precision medicine at the Mayo Clinic. Shameer’s contributions to biomedicine using applied machine intelligence include more than 130 peer-reviewed research papers, conference presentations and abstracts. Multiple national and international media outlets featured his work on healthcare data science, bioinformatics, drug discovery and precision medicine, including Forbes, Fast Company, Bloomberg News, and Times of India.

Shameer has received multiple awards for his research contributions; his work on developing an open catalog of drug repositioning has won the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics’ Bioinformatics Resource Innovation Award in 2017. Recently, Shameer was recognized as one of the 100 Artificial Intelligence Leaders in Drug Discovery & Healthcare (DKI Global and Forbes). Shameer’s TEDx Talk on Saving Lives Using Biomedical Data Science is available from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZM4u4XIhm08.