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  • 1.  Let's Break the Ice! Hi everyone!

    Posted 01-20-2026 04:47

    Hi everyone,

    I'm Elba, part of the AI/ML SIG leadership team, and I'm so excited to see this community growing! 🎉

    I thought it would be great to kick things off with a little introduction thread - a chance for us all to say hi and get to know each other!

    Feel free to share:

    • Who you are and where you're based
    • What drew you to the AI/ML SIG
    • Something you're currently working on or curious about in AI/ML
    • What you're hoping to get out of this community

    I'll go first! I'm a Pharmacometrician at Sanofi based in Frankfurt, Germany. I'm passionate about exploring how AI/ML can enhance and speedup our work in pharmacometrics, and I'm really looking forward to learning from all of you and building something great together.

    Now it's your turn 😄 Whether you're an AI/ML expert or just curious to learn more, we'd love to hear from you.

    Looking forward to connecting with you all!



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    Elba Raimundez Alvarez
    Sanofi
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  • 2.  RE: Let's Break the Ice! Hi everyone!

    Posted 01-20-2026 14:18

    Hi Elba,

    Nice to know you. Thanks for kick starting the discussion. I'm Jafar Shaik and I'm currently a Pharmacometrician at J&J Innovative Medicine based in Spring House, PA. I'm passionate to learn and apply AI/ML skills to enhance the efficiency by streamlining and automating routine PMx workflows and accelerate clinical development. 



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    Jafar Sadik Shaik
    Associate Director
    Johnson & Johnson
    West Chester PA
    +14127586891
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  • 3.  RE: Let's Break the Ice! Hi everyone!

    Posted 30 days ago
    Edited by Lindsay Clegg 30 days ago

    Hi everyone!

         Excited to see this SIG come together. It's definitely a dynamic and timely topic! I'm Lindsay Clegg. I'm a biomedical engineer/QSP modeler/pharmacometrician by training and experience. These days, I lead a group of pharmacometricians and PBPK modelers at AstraZeneca (in Gaithersburg, MD) working primarily on infectious and cardiovascular diseases. I'm also involved in a couple of different AI initiatives spanning process improvement, predicting clinical outcomes based on clinical data, and patient-level risk prediction.

    I'm also the vice chair of the ISoP Education Committee this year, so happy to help coordinate collaboration on educational aspects with that committee.


    I'm here because:
    1) I'm always interested in learning new things
    2) I love opportunities to make our day-to-day pharmacometrics work more efficient, which AI is looking to be a great tool for, and
    3) I'm also very focused on how we train and teach people pharmacometrics- which AI is certainly going to influence 
    (but also means it's a great time to be thoughtful and intention in how we incorporate AI into work without sacrificing quality, and also how we teach new pharmacometricians to do the core work, leveraging AI without missing out on building the core skills along the way).

    Looking forward to seeing this community grow and sort out how we as pharmacometricians can best navigate these challenges together!

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    Lindsay Clegg
    AstraZeneca
    Gaithersburg MD
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  • 4.  RE: Let's Break the Ice! Hi everyone!

    Posted 24 days ago

    Hey everyone,

    Thanks for kicking this off! I'm Jean-Baptiste, AI Engineer at Nova In Silico, based in France.

    My work focuses on integrating AI into our in silico clinical trial simulation platform to help streamline clinical trials using disease models and digital patients. These days, I'm particularly working on accelerating QSP model creation using human-assisted, informed AI agents, which is both exciting and challenging!

    I'm really excited to share knowledge through this SIG, exchange on good practices we want to adopt, and collectively explore where AI trends can generate real value in our day-to-day pharmacometrics work.

    Looking forward to exchanging with you all!



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    Jean-Baptiste Gourlet
    Scientific Software Engineer
    Nova In Silico
    Lyon
    +33 662144719
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  • 5.  RE: Let's Break the Ice! Hi everyone!

    Posted 24 days ago

    Happy new year everyone,

    I work as a quantitative medicine scientist for critical path institute in Arizona, USA. My work involves digital health technology, predictive modeling, and disease progression modeling. I use statistical methods and ML/AI. Here to exchange ideas and learn more about using ML/AI to accelerate drug development. I am also interested in the integration of ML/AI into traditional pharmacometric methods. Lastly, I also hope to learn and improve some organizational skills in this community. So if I can fill any role to help the leadership team, please let me know 😄@Elba Raimundez Alvarez.



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    Mingyuan Wang
    quantitative medicine scientist
    critical path institute
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  • 6.  RE: Let's Break the Ice! Hi everyone!

    Posted 23 days ago
    Edited by Ana Victoria Ponce Bobadilla 23 days ago

    Hi everyone!

    I'm Victoria, part of the AI/ML leadership team. I'm an Associate Director in Pharmacometrics at Certara, based in Basel, Switzerland.

    My work in AI/ML for pharmacometrics has focused on adopting and testing classical ML frameworks, such as neural ODEs, hybrid neural ODEs, variational autoencoders, tree‑based models, and interpretability methods, by applying them to data across different stages of the clinical drug development to answer different questions and assess where they provide the most value. More recently, like many of us, I've been exploring how AI agents can help optimize and streamline our workflows.

    One question I try to always keep in the back of my mind is how we can use these tools effectively given the data we work with, while being aware of best practices and the limitations of the frameworks.

    I am very excited to be part of this community, to share resources, discuss best practices and learn from each other!!! 


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    Victoria Ponce
    Associate Director, Pharmacometrics 
    Certara
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  • 7.  RE: Let's Break the Ice! Hi everyone!

    Posted 10 days ago

    Hi everyone,

    It's great to see so many of you already engaging here.


    I'm Jane, part of the AI/ML SIG leadership team. I recently joined the University of Copenhagen, where I'll be building a team working at the intersection of AI and pharmacometrics. I'm a mathematician by training and have been involved in my own AI projects, as well as leading the AI strategy at a startup.


    I'm very eager to build this community, develop a shared knowledge hub, and create a space for meaningful exchange together with all of you.

    All the best,
    Jane



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    Jane Knöchel
    Assistant Professor Advanced Pharmacometrics
    Copenhagen University
    Copenhagen
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  • 8.  RE: Let's Break the Ice! Hi everyone!

    Posted 10 days ago

    Hi everyone,

    Interesting to see everyone's backgrounds and focus areas!

    My name is Undine, I'm based in Berlin and currently working as a pharmacometric consultant at qPharmetra. I'm involved in developing an automatic model development tool intended to speed up initial model development. More generally, I'm interested in how AI/ML can meaningfully support pharmacometrics workflows, especially in extracting structured knowledge and enabling consistent reporting.

    I'm looking forward to the exchange within this group.



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    Undine Falkenhagen
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