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10 Roche AI and data science leaders
These ten current and former Roche AI and data science leaders have held director-level AI, machine learning or data science roles at Roche. A reader can learn how AI and data science leaders work at Roche from people who have held the role.
Professionals to explore
01—10Adrian Czabanowski
LinkedInExperience: Global Head, AI and ML Platforms and Services · Roche
Global Head, AI and ML Platforms and Services at Roche since 2026, a role the profile tags as an engineering and technical head with budget ownership. At Roche, Adrian was also Global Head, Digital Product Development, Integration and Engineering (2022–2025), Head of Global IT Solutions Centre - PD,PT,IPPS (2018–2022) and Head of Technology Center (2014–2018), and the profile places Adrian in Warsaw.
Arick Huensche
LinkedInExperience: Global Head of AI & GenAI Platforms · Roche
Global Head of AI & GenAI Platforms at Roche since 2024 and VP Science and Research at Roche since 2022; the profile says Arick defined and operationalized Roche's enterprise approach to AI across research, development, manufacturing and diagnostics. At Roche, Arick was also Senior Director Research and Lab Execution (2020–2023) and Director of Solution Architecture R&D (2016–2020).
Conrado Nolli
LinkedInExperience: Former Director of Artificial Intelligence · Roche
Former Director of Artificial Intelligence at Roche (2021–2026); the profile describes a focus on AI-driven drug discovery, machine learning, deep learning, generative AI, bioinformatics and precision medicine. Conrado was also Manager (2014–2021) and Senior Scientist (2009–2014) at Takeda and Artificial Intelligence Researcher at Schrödinger (2005–2008).
Deepak Sondur
LinkedInExperience: Head of Applied AI · Roche
Head of Applied AI at Roche since 2026, a role the profile describes as driving the application of AI to strategic, high-value business opportunities. At Roche, Deepak was also Domain Lead Informatics - Digital Products & Enablement (2022–2026), Global Head of Product IT CoE Diagnostics (2021–2022) and Director of Security Engineering and Operations (2020–2021).
Nikolaus Stiefl
LinkedInExperience: Executive Director, Global Head Small Molecule AI for Drug Discovery @ Roche & Genentech · Roche
Executive Director, Global Head Small Molecule AI for Drug Discovery @ Roche & Genentech at Roche since 2025, a role the profile describes as leading a global team of AI researchers, cheminformaticians and ML engineers. Nikolaus was also Portfolio Research Lead, Data & Analytics, pRED at Roche (2023–2025) and Director Data Science at Novartis (2022–2023).
Richard Bonneau
LinkedInExperience: VP and Global Head,AI for Drug Discovery · Roche
VP and Global Head, AI for Drug Discovery at Roche since 2025 and former VP ML for Drug Discovery at Genentech (2023–2025); the profile describes leading a team of computational scientists who develop new methods for molecular design, prediction and optimization. Richard was also Executive Director, Prescient at Genentech (2021–2023) and Founder, President, CEO of Prescient Design (2020–2021).
Samik Adhikary
LinkedInExperience: Head of AI Products and Services · Roche
Head of AI Products and Services at Roche since 2022 and former Head of AI & Data Science for Business Insights at Roche (2020–2022); the profile says Samik is responsible for a team of product owners who deliver end-to-end analytics products for business insights. Samik was also Lead Data Scientist at Roche (2020) and Senior Manager at Accenture (2018–2020).
Vladimir Gligorijević
LinkedInExperience: Executive Director of MLDD · Roche
Executive Director of MLDD at Roche since 2026, a role the profile headline ties to AI4DD/Prescient Design, and former Senior Director, AI/ML at Genentech (2021–2026). Vladimir was also Co-Founder of Prescient Design (2021) and Research Scientist (2019–2021) and Research Fellow (2017–2019) at the Simons Foundation.
William Jiang
LinkedInExperience: VP, AI Precision Medicine · Roche
VP, AI Precision Medicine at Roche since 2025 and former Senior Director, Data Science & AI at Roche (2022–2025); the profile describes leading strategic direction for AI in precision medicine with research, medical and digital teams. William was also Director, Data Science & AI Platform at Johnson & Johnson (2018–2022) and Associate Director, Data Science at Genentech (2012–2018).
Yi Lin
LinkedInExperience: Leader Head of AI, Data and Digital (AIDD), China Innovation Center of Roche (CICoR) · Roche R&D Center (China) Ltd
Head of AI, Data and Digital (AIDD), China Innovation Center of Roche (CICoR) at Roche R&D Center (China) since 2022; the profile describes heading the department that applies AI to drug discovery and early development. Yi was also Head of Discovery Informatics, Senior Principal Scientist, Data Science (2021–2022) and Principal Scientist, Data Science and Discovery Informatics (2016–2020) there.
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Questions to take into the conversation
- 01How does a large drugmaker build machine learning teams for molecular design inside research?
- 02How do you run shared AI and GenAI platforms that many business teams build on?
- 03How do you choose which business problems an applied AI team should take on first?
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