Asif Jan is a Group Director in Personalized Healthcare (PHC) Data Science at Roche, Switzerland, where he leads a multi-disciplinary team of scientists specializing in computer science, neuroscience, and statistics. The team implements a variety of statistical and machine learning methods on real-world datasets (e.g. Electronic Medical Records, Health Insurance Claims, Disease Registries) to fulfill evidence and data analysis needs of Neuroscience disease area at Roche. Previously, he was Head of Data Science at Roche Diagnostics leading a team of quantitative scientists supporting In-vitro Diagnostics (IVD) and clinical decision support (CDS) product development, and defined data strategy enabling use of real-world data in Roche Diagnostics. Earlier he has had a number of roles overseeing technology strategy development, enterprise and solution architecture and program management at Roche and in other research organizations. Asif has vast experience of building and leading data science teams in Pharma, Diagnostics, and industrial research institutes, tackling complex scientific and business problems. He strongly believes that the intersection of strategy, technology and data science is needed to fight diseases thereby enabling better care for everyone.
Asif holds a PhD in Neuroscience (informatics) from Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL) Lausanne, Switzerland, MPhil in Computer Science from the University of West of England (UWE), Bristol, United Kingdom.