Dr. Jingcheng Du, the VP of Life Sciences Solutions at IMO, has extensive experience leading the development and implementation of NLP/AI solutions in the life sciences industry. As a consultant, he has provided guidance to global pharmaceutical companies on NLP/AI best practices throughout the pharma value chain. Dr. Du earned his PhD in Medical Informatics from UTHealth Houston, specializing in the development of AI algorithms for healthcare applications such as machine learning, deep learning, NLP, and knowledge graphs. He has published over 60 peer-reviewed papers in the field of biomedical science, and his work at UTHealth and the National Center for Biotechnology Information at the National Institute of Health has been cited over 1,700 times.