Aman Bhandari

At Vertex Pharmaceuticals, I lead the corporate data science division that integrates and scales advanced analytics and AI (e.g. NLP, machine learning, generative AI/LLMs) across our disease areas and business including clinical, commercial, manufacturing and HR. Collaborating directly with executive management, our privacy office and IT, we've developed enterprise capabilities and a model for using AI to drive impact. My role extends to engaging with the Board of Directors annually, delivering the vision and tangible impacts of data science and AI. I assembled an elite technical team from the ground up with the goal of leveraging data in transformative ways to deliver novel insights and enable operational excellence through change management at all levels of our business.

Prior to joining Vertex in 2017, I held roles at Merck, Genentech, the White House, and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. In these roles I created the first formal data science team at Merck and while at the White House paved the wave for the first Chief Data Officers across the U.S. Government. I earned my PhD in health services research and a master's in epidemiology, with a focus on using large scale data to better understand healthcare. I have been an advisor to data/tech initiatives for the World Bank, USAID, Harvard, Cornell, Ashoka Foundation, Knight News Foundation, Boston Children's Hospital and others. I live in the Boston area with my wife, Vicki Fung, who is faculty of medicine and health policy at Harvard Medical School/Massachusetts General Hospital.