Esben Jannik Bjerrum

Esben Jannik Bjerrum, PhD, is Principal Scientist II at AbbVie, where he works with deep learning, AI, and cheminformatics to accelerate drug discovery. Since 2016, Esben has driven several innovations in generative AI and molecular design, including the well-known SMILES enumeration method for data augmentation. He was a founder and core contributor to open-source tools such as AiZynthFinder, Chemformer, and Scikit-Mol and has published more than 55 scientific articles. Esben also shares his insights through his blog Cheminformania.com. Originally from Denmark and now based in Sweden, he enjoys building practical solutions from data science for real-world impact in pharma drug discovery.