Etai Jacob, PhD, leads Applied Data Science & AI for Oncology R&D at AstraZeneca, where he scaled global teams of data scientists, computational biologists, and AI researchers to operationalize AI across discovery through clinical development. His work focuses on decision intelligence for drug R&D: integrating multimodal data, deploying predictive biomarker and patient-stratification models, and designing benchmarking and evaluation frameworks for foundation and agentic AI systems. Etai brings 20+ years of cross-industry experience and a track record of converting advanced methods into measurable R&D impact.