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GAIA Conference 2019

David Svensson

David Svensson

Statistical Science Director, AstraZeneca

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Biography

David holds a PhD in Mathematical Statistics from the Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden. He joined AstraZeneca in Gothenburg in 2003 and is now a Statistical Science Director in the Statistical Innovation group within the Advanced Analytic Centre. In that position, he is both involved in directly supporting late phase clinical drug projects and methodological longer-term work (e.g. relating to biomarkers/subgroups, personalized medicine, machine learning, and safety). He is particularly interested in computationally intensive statistics, machine learning, visualisation, and Bayesian approaches, and he is a keen R user. The lead of PSI Special Interest Group on Subgroup Analysis since 2018.