Listen to this very timely conversation with my friend, Dr. Kam Chana who breaks down the Coronavirus Omicron VOC (Variant of Concern), the Data and AI applications, and best practices in Lifesciences & Pharma, Quantum Computing, and much more, in the latest Stories in AI episode.

Chapters
00:00 Kam’s Story
03:00 The Omicron variant of the Coronavirus
08:30 The mRNA breakthrough and fast-tracking vaccines
10:20 AI in Pharma, Lifesciences
17:00 Making sense of the Biomedical data
18:18 Scaling AI and data products in Pharma
21:40 Best practices in Data and AI
23:14 Quantum Computing today
26:16 Quantum Computing complements AI
31:30 Current challenges with AI & best practices
36: 00 Rapid-fire – AGI, Personal practice

Bio
Dr. Kam Chana is Director of the Scientific Data and Computing Platforms group supporting research and development at Merck Research Labs. His group consists of Scientific Data Platform, High-Performance Computing, Applied Computing, and Site Reliability Engineering teams providing capabilities and platforms for data science, scientific algorithms and software engineering. In addition, his group supports capabilities for deployment engineering, instrumentation and monitoring of software, infrastructure and lab systems. His team utilizes and supports algorithms and platforms for cutting edge Data Science. Dr Chana has spoken about and is leading an initiative to develop Quantum Computing for life science R&D within Merck. Dr Chana holds a Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics and has 20+ years’ experience in scientific computing for the life sciences industry.

Contact: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kam-chana/