Summary
Brandon Rufino is a Director of AI for Clinical Trial Design based in Toronto with eight years of experience applying advanced data science to drug development. He leads cross-disciplinary teams at Sanofi to build full-stack AI pipelines that blend transformer architectures, predictive modeling, and causal inference to optimize trial parameters, patient safety, and success probability. Comfortable both as a hands-on coder and a strategic manager, he has driven MLOps standards, reusable component architectures, and organization-wide upskilling programs. His background spans biomedical engineering, EHR and literature-driven patient journey modeling, and even mixed-signal layout work—an uncommon blend that helps him bridge computational, clinical, and hardware-minded perspectives. Brandon thrives on collaborative partnerships with academia and industry to push practical AI frontiers that shorten development time for therapeutics.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Electrical and Biomedical Engineering, Alumni, Electrical and Biomedical Engineering, Alumni at McMaster University
Master of Applied Science (MASc), Biomedical Engineering, Master of Applied Science (MASc), Biomedical Engineering at University of Toronto
Highschool Diploma with a Specialist High Skills Major (SHSM) in Sports, Highschool Diploma with a Specialist High Skills Major (SHSM) in Sports at St. Edmund Campion High School
English