Dr. Igor Tetko obtained an MSc in Physics (with distinction) from Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology and a PhD in bioorganic chemistry from the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences before completing a habilitation in Chemoinformatics at the University of Strasbourg. Since 2012, Dr. Tetko has led the Chemoinformatics group at the Institute of Structural Biology of HMGU. He has co-authored more than 250 publications in chemoinformatics, bioinformatics, neuroinformatics, computational chemistry, environmental toxicity, and machine learning. He co-chaired the ICANN2019 conference in Munich as well as the  ICANN2024 in Lugano, Switzerland. He is currently Program Chair of ICANN2026 which will be in Padua, Italy, September 14-17, 2026. Igor is an associate editor of ChemResTox (ACS) and of Journal of Cheminformatics (Springer) and executive member of European Neural Network Society. He was on the 2016 list of the Most Cited Researchers in Computer Science & Engineering and has received two national awards (GO-Bio) in 2006 and 2011.
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Dr. Katya Ahmad holds an MSci degree in Chemistry (with First Class Honours)  and pursued a PhD in Computational Biophysics at the Centre for Computational Science, University College London (2017-2020). She completed a Postdoc at Forschungszentrum Jülich, where she focused on application of QM/MM MD to study protein-ligand unbinding. Katya's research interests include MD simulations, QM and QM/MM MD simulations, DNA nanotechnology, and computer-aided drug discovery. She also has 5+ years of experience with tuition and and supervision of students across all age groups. Within the Chemoinformatics group at HMGU, Katya is responsible for management and administration of projects.
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