Michal Pikusa
Associate Director & Sr Principal Data Scientist
Basel, Basel-City, Switzerland
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Top SchoolMichal Pikusa is an Associate Director and Senior Principal Data Scientist with 11 years of experience applying deep learning and NLP to early drug discovery, currently leading AI/ML initiatives at Novartis in Basel. He has driven projects end-to-end—from ideation and model design to production deployment—across RNA-seq, CRISPR, single-cell analysis, virtual screening, and generative molecular design using GANs, VAEs and LLMs. Michal combines a PhD in linguistics with strong industry practice, which informs his unconventional strength in sequence- and language-inspired models for biological data. He has a track record of integrating large, heterogeneous datasets and building fast, scalable search and analysis platforms over millions of compounds. As a mentor and manager, he guides postdocs and interns to translate research prototypes into robust products that accelerate small-molecule discovery.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Linguistics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Linguistics at Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu
Polish, English, German
Github Skills (42)
sequence8
ctc8
facebook8
hierarchical7
pytorch7
artificial-intelligence7
python7
sequence-to-sequence7
nlp7
data-augmentation6
transformer-architecture6
softmax6
conformer6
natural-language-processing6
machine-learning6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
michal-pikusa/text-network-analysis
Apr 2018 - Jan 2019
Contributions:24 commits, 21 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
michal-pikusa/deep-authorship-attribution
Dec 2017 - Sep 2018
Contributions:36 commits, 30 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
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