The role is for becoming a Doctoral Candidate within the AiChemist Doctoral Network, a Horizon Europe Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions program. Academically affiliated to the Biomedical Engineering department of the Eindhoven University of Technology and co-supervised by Sanofi, the candidate will specialize in explainable artificial intelligence for drug discovery. The thesis focuses on the evaluation of explainable artificial intelligence (xAI) methods in the context of drug discovery. Within the Doctoral Network, the candidate shall combine 30 months as a Tu/E employee with 18 months as a Sanofi employee, positioning them at the cutting edge of computational chemistry and pharmaceutical innovation across Europe.
Are you ready to shape the future of medicine? The race is on to speed up drug discovery and development to find answers for patients and their families. Your skills could be critical in helping our teams accelerate progress. Join our CADD group as a Doctoral Candidate and you’ll make Molecular Artificial Intelligence more explainable to help the new drugs to be found faster.
Main responsibilities:
Develop a methodology to evaluate explainable artificial intelligence (xAI) methods in the context of drug discovery
Explore the concept of faithfulness for evaluating the quality of xAI methods applied to molecular objects
Compare the performance of faithfulness metrics compared to methods using synthetic labels with a known ground truth
Stress-test the modeling workflow on several public and corporate datasets
Publish your research in peer-reviewed journals
About you
Experience: Experience in python programming is required
Soft and technical skills: Cheminformatics, good understanding of xAI
Education: Master’s degree related to Computational Chemistry, Applied Maths or Computer Science
Languages: English (mandatory), French (nice to have)
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