Patrick is Director of Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence at GSK AI/ML. His work aims to advance personalized medicine by utilizing machine learning methods and large-scale health data, such as continuous measurements from smart devices and electronic health records, to better understand and treat complex diseases. 

Patrick joined GSK from Roche in Basel, Switzerland where he was Principal Architect for Machine Learning for Personalized Medicine. Prior to joining Roche, he was a doctoral researcher in Machine Learning for Healthcare at ETH Zurich, Switzerland where he worked, in close collaboration with students, medical researchers, clinical experts and industrial professionals from University Hospital Zurich, the Balgrist clinic and Hocoma AG, on applying machine learning methods in the medical domain. Prior to that, Patrick collected 5 years of experience in using machine learning to automate business processes and engineering custom software solutions in industry.

Patrick holds a PhD in Machine Learning (2019) from ETH Zurich, Switzerland, a MSc in Computer Science (2015) with distinction from the University of Vienna, Austria and a BSc in Computer Science (2013) with honors from Technikum Vienna, Austria.