Emmanuel Noutahi
Speaker at AMLD Africa 2024
Emmanuel Noutahi is a principal scientist and technical leader at Valence Labs, a research engine within Recursion Pharmaceuticals.
His work spans representation learning, out-of-distribution generalization, generative modeling, and human-in-the-loop approaches for scientific discovery.
He led the creation of LOWE (LLM-Orchestrated Workflow Engine), an innovative system using LLMs for orchestrating drug discovery workflows, marking a significant step towards autonomous AI agents in scientific discovery.
Emmanuel has also made substantial contributions to Datamol, an open-source framework for AI in drug discovery, and co-founded Studio Point Virgule in Benin, which hosts projects like Eureka, aiming to highlight the work of African researchers.
At AMLD Africa
United States International University Africa, Nairobi, Kenya
Towards Autonomous AI Agent for Drug Discovery
The talk will delve into how artificial intelligence is reshaping drug discovery. It will discuss the current limitations and challenges in fully leveraging AI to industrialize this field and enable widespread access to treatments. It will spotlight tools like LOWE (LLM-Orchestrated Workflow Engine) for their role in optimizing complex workflows and expediting drug development. Additionally, the talk will emphasize the importance of selecting appropriate inductive biases in designing ML architecture and incorporating human insights to notably improve predictive accuracy to drive innovation on an unprecedented scale.
