Anna Kostikova, Ph.D., Director of Data Science and Machine Learning at Novartis, co-founder of Asylia Diagnostics, advisor and mentor for biotech and life science early-stage companies. Founded 2 companies, ex-Booking, ex-Heineken.

Anna's core specialty is on the intersection of biotech / life science / healthcare and the utilization of AI and machine learning. She is passionate about the unprecedented level of innovation that AI/ML has to offer to life sciences and healthcare. After completing her doctorate degree in Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, and a series of post-docs, she became fascinated by what technology giants like Google, Amazon, Netflix, and Facebook, are doing with massive data. She went to Booking, one of the leading companies in online travel, and helped to grow the DS/ML team from 20 to 250 specialists, making it one of the largest EU-based data science teams. After several years in tech, she came back to the biopharma and founded InsideDNA (winner of TechCrunch Disrupt), and then Asylia Diagnostics (Catapult Award Winner). Since 3 last years, she leads a data science/ML team at Novartis headquarter in Basel and has been deeply involved in the formation of the entrepreneurial culture in TechxBio.

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