Dr Eric Ma

As Senior Principal Data Scientist at Moderna, Eric leads the Data Science and Artificial Intelligence (Research) team to accelerate science to the speed of thought. Before joining Moderna, he worked at the Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research, conducting biomedical data science research with a focus on applying Bayesian statistical methods to support the discovery of new medicines for patients. Earlier in his career, he was an Insight Health Data Fellow in the summer of 2017 and completed his doctoral thesis in the Department of Biological Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the spring of the same year.

Eric is also an open-source software developer and has led the development of pyjanitor, a clean API for data cleaning in Python, and nxviz, a visualisation package for NetworkX. He is a core developer for both NetworkX and PyMC. In addition, he contributes to the wider data science community through coding, blogging, teaching and writing.