Rick Johnston, PhD
Head of Engineering and Product Development, Applied Materials, Inc.
Rick is a senior technical leader within Applied Materials' pharmaceutical business unit. He has more than 15 years of experience in building software that solves big data, machine learning, scheduling, forecasting and advanced analytics problems in pharma. Software built by Dr Johnston is used by more than 90% of the world's largest pharmaceutical companies. He has a Ph.D. in operations research and bioinformatics from UC Berkeley.