Hossein Sahraei is Deputy Director of Process Analytics on the data science team at Sanofi (Toronto, Canada). He has experience in implementing mathematical models, system optimization, machine learning, and data analytics in the pharmaceutical, retails, and energy sectors. Dr. Hossein’s mission is to develop an automated and scalable prescriptive analytics framework to promote data-driven decision making in vaccine manufacturing areas. He earned a PhD in mechanistic modeling and control from the University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. He can be reached at Hossein.Sahraei@sanofi.com.