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10 GSK AI and data science leaders
These ten current and former GSK AI and data science leaders have held director-level AI, machine learning or data science roles at GSK. A reader can learn how AI and data science leaders work at GSK from people who have held the role.
Professionals to explore
01—10Abigail A. Flower, Ph.D.
LinkedInExperience: Former Director, Applied AI, AI/ML Engineering · GSK
Former Director, Applied AI, AI/ML Engineering at GSK (2022–2026), a role the profile places in Westchester County, New York at director level. Abigail was also Inaugural Director of the Center for Emerging Technologies at the University of New England (2026), President and Chief Executive Officer at AI Zwei (2020–2022) and Assistant Professor, School of Data Science at the University of Virginia (2018–2020).
Emma Slade
LinkedInExperience: Senior Director of AI ML Engineering · GSK
Senior Director of AI ML Engineering at GSK since 2026; the profile says Emma leads the Foundation Models team within AIML. Emma was also Head of Applied AI at Tangram Therapeutics (2025–2026), and Director of AI ML Engineering (2024–2025), Senior AI ML Engineer (2022–2024) and AI Fellow (2020–2022) at GSK.
Francisco Cruz
LinkedInExperience: Sr. Director Decision Science & AI - Global Commerical · GSK
Sr. Director Decision Science & AI - Global Commercial at GSK since 2023 and former Director Data Science - Global Commercial Data & Analytics at GSK (2020–2023), a role the profile says directed a global data science team in the US, UK, India and Japan. Francisco was also Senior Principal Data Scientist at CBS (2018–2020) and Scientist in Applied Math and Modeling at Merck (2006–2015).
Gal Keinan
LinkedInExperience: Director of AI & Machine Learning · GSK
Director of AI & Machine Learning at GSK since 2026, a role the profile lists at director level in the Engineering and Technical department. At GSK, Gal was also Senior AI ML Researcher (2023–2026) and Machine Learning Researcher (2021–2023), and was Data Science Researcher (2019–2021) and Analog Design Engineer (2011–2019) at Intel.
Jonathan L. Golob
LinkedInExperience: Director, AI ML Vaccines & Infectious Disease · GSK
Director, AI ML Vaccines & Infectious Disease at GSK since 2025 and former Lead Engineer of AI ML for Vaccines and Infectious Disease there (2024–2025); the profile describes Jonathan as a board-certified physician in internal medicine and infectious disease who also writes production machine learning code. Jonathan was also Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan (2018–2024).
Katie Aiello
LinkedInExperience: Executive Director, AI/ML Engineering · GSK
Executive Director, AI/ML Engineering at GSK since 2026 and former Senior Director, AI/ML Engineering at GSK (2021–2026). Katie was also Director, AI/ML Engineering (2019–2021) and Senior Machine Learning Engineer (2019) at GSK, and Lead AI Engineer, Clinical AI at Genentech (2018–2019), and the profile places Katie in San Francisco.
Laura Acqualagna
LinkedInExperience: Senior Director of AI/ML Engineerig, R&D · GSK
Senior Director of AI/ML Engineering, R&D at GSK since 2026 and former Director of AI/ML Engineering, GSK R&D (2023–2026); the profile describes leadership across computational pathology, multimodal data integration and oncology. At GSK, Laura was also Manager, Sr. Machine Learning Engineer (2019–2023) and a data scientist in machine learning and AI (2016–2019).
Lena Granovsky
LinkedInExperience: Senior Director of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning · GSK
Senior Director of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning at GSK since 2022 and former Director of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning there (2020–2022), a role the profile places in Israel. Lena was also Senior Director, Head of Analytics and Big Data (2020) and Director, Head of Analytics and Big Data (2018–2020) at Teva Pharmaceuticals.
Paul Elliott
LinkedInExperience: Senior Director of Engineering, AI/ML · GSK
Senior Director of Engineering, AI/ML at GSK since 2025 and former Director of Engineering, AI/ML at GSK (2023–2025), and the profile places Paul in the Greater Seattle Area. Paul was also Software Engineer at Google (2020–2023), Manager, Data Science at Zume Inc. (2019–2020) and Data Team Lead at MyMusicTaste (2016–2018).
Paul Smyth
LinkedInExperience: Senior Director, AI/ML Engineering · GSK
Senior Director, AI/ML Engineering at GSK since 2026; the profile says Paul leads the Controllable Biology and Sequence Learning team at GSK AIML. At GSK, Paul was also Director, AI/ML Engineering (2022–2026), Staff AI/ML Engineer at gsk.ai (2022), Senior AI/ML Engineer (2021–2022) and Senior Manager Data Science Capabilities (2019–2021).
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Questions to take into the conversation
- 01How does a large drugmaker organize AI/ML engineering teams around research areas?
- 02What does it take to build foundation models for biology inside a pharmaceutical company?
- 03How do decision science teams support commercial strategy with AI?
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