Izhar Wallach

Izhar Wallach is the current CTO and co-founder at Atomwise, a company that uses artificial intelligence to help speed up the drug discovery process. Prior to Atomwise, Wallach was an algorithm developer at Keddem Bioscience Ltd. from May 2004 to June 2007. Before that, they worked as a Unix system administrator at Intel from January 2001 to December 2004.

Izhar Wallach received their Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Computer Science from the University of Toronto. Prior to that, they received their Master of Science (M.Sc.) in Computer Science from the University of Toronto and their Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) in Computer Science from Technion - Israel Institute of Technology.

Some of their coworkers include Kong Nguyen - Head, Computer Aided Drug Design, Evera Wong - Associate Director, Alliance Management, and Janet Koe - VP, Program Management. Some direct reports include Stefan Schrödl - Head, Machine Learning, Cameron Ferroni - VP, Engineering, and Faeq Mansour - Senior Director, Corporate IT. Their manager is Abraham Heifets, CEO & Co-Founder.