Gurinder Singh “Mickey” Atwal

Gurinder Singh “Mickey” Atwal joined Flagship Pioneering in 2024 as Chief Data and AI Officer, Pioneering Intelligence, an initiative that harnesses the latest advances in artificial intelligence to accelerate innovation and enable value creation across the Flagship ecosystem. In his role, Mickey helps drive Flagship’s Data and AI strategy to support cutting-edge science, company creation, and an AI-forward culture.

Mickey brings more than 25 years of experience in AI/ML, theoretical physics, medical genomics and biotechnology development to his role, spanning academia and industry. He joined Flagship from Regeneron, where he served as Vice President, Head of Molecular Profiling and Data Science, leading and growing a team of data scientists and molecular biologists responsible for functional genomics and computation across all therapeutic areas. He was a strategic advisor on AI/ML across the organization, introducing and leading research on deep learning, generative AI, and data architecture solutions for R&D. Mickey was an Associate Professor at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in the Simons Center for Quantitative Biology and The Cancer Center, where he supervised computational biology research for graduate and postdoctoral scientists, and founded graduate course instruction in Quantitative Biology, Machine Learning and Python coding.

Mickey holds multiple patents and has contributed to numerous research publications on machine learning, condensed matter theory, computational biology and drug development.

Mickey earned his MSci, BA in Natural Sciences (Physics) from the University of Cambridge and his PhD in Physics from Cornell University. He conducted postdoctoral research in machine learning and computational biology at Princeton University and The Institute for Advanced Study.