Dr Enrico SANTUS's Story

Dr Enrico SANTUS
PhD Graduate (2016) from the Department of Chinese and Bilingual Studies

Enrico Santus is a senior data scientist at Bayer.

After his PhD at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, he worked as postdoc at the Singapore University of Technology and Design and at the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab of MIT (CSAIL), in the group of Regina Barzilay.

His academic career includes affiliations with the King's College of London, the University of Pisa, the University of Stuttgart, the Nara Institute of Technology and Harvard. His work touches topics such as NLP in Oncology, Cardiology and Palliative Care. Enrico has also worked on Epidemiology, Fake News Detection, Sentiment Analysis and Lexical Semantics.

As of today, Enrico has published over 50 papers (some of which appeared in top journals, such as Nature), with over 637 citations. He collaborated to the creation of The Prayer (artist: Diemut Strebe), a mouth-shaped robot that pronounces original prayers, generated with Artificial Intelligence, exposed at the Centre Pompidou, in Paris. He was also involved in the creation of Safe Paths, the MIT tracing app. He is CEO of RenaiXance and advisor of three startups: K-Juicer, MindPhi and MedLyticsAI.

Enrico was also invited to speak at the White House about how to utilize natural language processing for optimizing document management, and he is first author of a fact sheet about Artificial Intelligence for the American Congress: https://www.belfercenter.org/publication/technology-factsheet-artificial-intelligence