Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning
Peter V. Henstock has focused his career at the intersection of artificial intelligence, visualization, statistics, and software engineering. For the past 20-plus years, he has worked in different roles within the pharmaceutical space at Pfizer, starting in an advanced analytics role and becoming the site statistician for Pfizer’s first site in Massachusetts.
Expertise
- Developing visualization tools and integrating approaches into drug discovery workflows, which became standard approaches for the company
- Machine learning and artificial intelligence in biotech and pharmaceutical research and development; recognized as one of the top world leaders in AI and pharma by DKV Analytics
- Advanced degrees and expertise in biology, statistics, linguistics, and engineering
Experience
- Leading workshops to introduce leaders to machine learning and AI to increase informatics in data science
- Formed an AI network in Pfizer and coordinated a seminar series showcasing successful projects around image understanding, QSAR and natural language processing. and pharma conferences.
- Worked at MIT Lincoln Laboratory developing advanced image understanding algorithms for specialized radar systems and worked in a computational linguistic role that combed statistics, linguistics and machine learning for multilingual search, question-answering, and translation systems between English and Korean.