Head of Machine Learning, Generate Biosciences Assistant Professor, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard Medical School

Dr. Andrew Beam is an assistant professor in the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health's Department of Epidemiology, with secondary appointments in Harvard Medical School's Department of Biomedical Informatics and Brigham and Women's Hospital's Department of Newborn Medicine. He received a Pioneer Award from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation for his medical artificial intelligence research, which uses machine-learning approaches to extract insights from clinical and biological information.

He was a Senior Fellow at Flagship Pioneering and the founding head of machine learning at Generate Biosciences, Inc., a Flagship-backed business that uses machine learning to create proteins.