Bio

Enrico Santus is Director of AI and ML at Bayer. After his PhD at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University (for which he obtained the Outstanding Alumni Award: https://www.polyu.edu.hk/engl/sitecore/content/fh/news-and-events/news/2022/outstanding-alumni-award-of-polyu-faculty-of-humanities-2022/), he worked as postdoc at the Singapore University of Technology and Design and at the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab of MIT (CSAIL), in the group of Regina Barzilay. His academic career includes affiliations with the King's College of London, the University of Pisa, the University of Stuttgart, the Nara Institute of Technology and Harvard. His work touches topics such as NLP in Oncology, Cardiology and Palliative Care. Enrico has also worked on Epidemiology, Fake News Detection, Sentiment Analysis and Lexical Semantics. As of today, Enrico has published over 60 papers in top-tier conferences and journals, with over 1150 citations. He collaborated to the creation of The Prayer (artist: Diemut Strebe), a mouth-shaped robot that pronounces original prayers, generated with GPT-2, exposed at the Centre Pompidou, in Paris. He was also involved in the creation of Safe Paths, the MIT tracing app. He is AI scientific advisor of the Laboratory of Data Discovery for Health, Women's Brain Project, MindPhi and K-Juicer. Enrico was also invited to speak at the White House about how natural language processing could have supported the administration, and he is first author of a fact sheet about Artificial Intelligence for the American Congress: https://www.belfercenter.org/publication/technology-factsheet-artificial-intelligence