Aaron Mackey is Senior Vice President of AI & Data Science at Lokavant, a clinical trial intelligence platform. Mackey has expertise in artificial intelligence and data science, instrumental in advancing technology and deriving novel insights. He has held various tenure-track faculty research positions in academia, including the Center for Public Health Genomics at the University of Virginia and the University of Pennsylvania Genomics Institute. He has also held scientific and leadership roles at Valo Health, and Roivant Sciences. Most recently, he was Vice President and Head of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning at Sonata Therapeutics.
EARLY CAREER
At Sonata Therapeutics, he oversaw the refinement and deployment of an open-source deep learning method for oncology target profiling from human tumors.
He was Vice President of Computational Multi Omic Sciences at Roivant Sciences, where he grew, mentored, and led a diverse multi omics team.
He was Head of Computational Sciences at Valo Health, responsible for leading a team of data scientists with diverse expertise.
At Covance, he was an integral member of the Informatics team reporting directly to the Chief Data officer.
ACADEMIA
He was Lecturer and Course Instructor of Computational and Comparative Genomics at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.
He was an Assistant Professor for the Center for Public Health Genomics at the University of Virginia.
He was also a NextGen Sequencing Research Scientist at Baylor College of Medicine.