Director of Benchmarking and Data Challenges
Sage Bionetworks
Jacob Albrecht, PhD, is currently Director of Benchmarking and Data Challenges at Sage Bionetworks, focused on enabling the evaluation of biomedical tools and algorithms. He received a PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and a BS from the Univ. of Nebraska-Lincoln, both in chemical engineering. Previously, he was an associate director in pharmaceutical development at Bristol Myers Squibb (BMS). He has championed the adoption of modern approaches to data science and machine learning both within BMS and through pharmaceutical industry consortia.