Stefan Harrer

Dr. Stefan Harrer is Vice President, Global Head of R&D AI and Computational Sciences at Sanofi, where he works on the development and application of artificial intelligence in drug discovery and development. He has held technical and strategic leadership roles in the US, Europe, and Australia in AI for science, healthcare, and biopharma spanning Sanofi, Australia’s National Science Agency CSIRO, and IBM Research. 

Stefan holds a PhD in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering from the Technical University of Munich, conducted in collaboration with MIT and supported by a Karl Chang Innovation Fund from MIT and a Presidential Research Fellowship from TUM.  He has held research appointments at UC Berkeley and Scientific Advisory roles at Harvard Medical School and Harvard Business Review. He also holds an honors degree in Technology Management from CDTM. Stefan has authored more than 70 scientific publications in leading journals and conferences including Nature, The Lancet, NeurIPS, AAAI, IJCAI, and CVPR and is an IBM Master Inventor with 77 granted patents. He is a member of the New York Academy of Sciences and a Senior Member of the IEEE EMBS. His research focuses on foundation models for health and life sciences applications, multi-agent AI systems, AI for scientific discovery, and trustworthy and safe AI.