Genuity Science, a genomics and data-sourcing, analytics and insights organization, announced today that Tom Chittenden, PhD, DPhil, PStat, Chief Data Science Officer and Founding Director of the Genuity Science Advanced Artificial Intelligence Research Laboratory, is a winner of the Artificial Intelligence Excellence Awards presented by the Business Intelligence Group. The awards identify organizations, products, and people who bring AI to life and apply it to solve real problems. Chittenden and team were recognized for the use of novel, biologically-validated and published AI capabilities to address key areas of risk and opportunity at virtually any point in the drug development process. Despite the COVID-19 pandemic, Chittenden and Genuity Science continued their goal of using genetics to help understand diseases in new ways so that they can be treated in new ways. This past year, in collaboration with Professor Michael Simons and his team at Yale University Medical School, the Genuity Science Advanced AI Research Laboratory used a new generative AI approach to discover, in mice studies, a novel pathobiological mechanism that causally underpins aortic aneurysm.

There are many excellent women working in the data science industry today. But we've rounded up a list of 10, with a mixture of both industry leaders and ones to watch. The data science industry is thriving and as AI and machine learning continue to evolve, so too will the role of the data scientist. While this may create new and exciting opportunities in tech, there is still a gender gap in this sector that needs to be addressed. A report from Boston Consulting Group earlier this year suggested that only about 15pc to 22pc of all professionals in data science-related roles are women.