Presenter

Derek is a staff data scientist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) where he works to apply artificial intelligence and machine learning to problems in molecular biology. As part of his work he collaborates in the ATOM (Accelerating Therapeutic Opportunities in Medicine) consortium along with other scientists from LLNL, Frederick National Lab, UCSF and many other organizations to help accelerate the in-silico drug discovery process. Derek is also a graduate student in the CSE department at the University of California - San Diego where he is working on research to leverage high performance computing hardware and machine learning to accelerate molecular simulations.