Djork-Arné Clevert is director and head of the Machine Learning Research department at R&D Data Science Bayer Pharma. He has a background in machine learning and his doctoral degree dealt with computational biology. He has been Co-PI in several large projects with the pharmaceutical industry, in particular, transcriptome analysis and statistical genetics with Johnson and Johnson and Merck Serono Geneva, respectively. His research has mainly been concerned with microarray data in earlier years. Later he shifted this research focus to the prediction of biological effects of compounds with methods, such as, deep learning.