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Jiajie Zhang

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Chief Data Science and AI Officer at Evinova
📍 Switzerland

Jiajie serves as the Chief Data Science and AI Officer at Evinova, AstraZenecas healthtech business. A PhD graduate from Universität zu Lübeck, he has an extensive background leading AI and machine learning initiatives at major pharmaceutical companies like Sanofi and GSK, focusing on drug discovery and development.

He has a deep passion for the history and future of scientific discovery, particularly in genomics. Jiajie reflects on how modern AI is finally making it possible to fully "decode" the human genome, a long-held scientific ambition he has followed for over two decades.

Jiajie is on a public mission to use AI to halve the $1 billion, 10-year timeline it traditionally takes to bring a new drug to patients.

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Experience
10 Years
Current Role
Chief Data Science and AI Officer
Job Level
Leadership
Location
Switzerland
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Agentic AI Systems
He is actively building an "agentic AI platform" and hiring specialized engineers at Evinova to solve complex problems in clinical development.
Accelerating Drug R&D
He frequently states his core mission is using AI to cut the time and cost of drug development in half, a major focus of his work at Evinova.
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Career

Work history

2-2025
Chief Data Science and AI Officer
Evinova
4-2024 - 2-2025
Head of GenAI R&D, Digital
Sanofi
4-2023 - 4-2024
Global Head of AI and Machine Learning, R&D
Sanofi
3-2020 - 4-2023
Senior Director AI and Machine Learning
GSK
7-2019 - 3-2020
Director AI and Machine Learning
GSK
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Education
2008 - 2015
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Universität zu Lübeck
2002 - 2006
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.)
Jilin University
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