Andreas Persidis
is the CEO of Biovista, the ACGT partner responsible for the literature mining, ontology browsing and related ACGT applications. Andreas’ research interests focus on knowledge management and the development of tools for systematic knowledge discovery in the life-science domain. With a long career in artificial intelligence, ontology development and text mining but also significant business experience, he serves as an expert reviewer and advisor to national organizations, investment banks and the EC itself. Andreas has brought this experience to bear within ACGT, pushing the consortium to always take into account the true needs of the stakeholders and to develop solutions that make sense in actual environments rather than purely research contexts. Not being any longer able to program to save his life, Andreas instead works on spreading the word for the better exchange and use of data to address the complex issue of better health care. He believes that mining the information in patient records is a step in the right direction. Andreas shares his time between Europe and the US and what time remains free, he enjoys with his 5 year old daughter Leda who has yet to see tangible benefits for her from his ACGT work.