Dr. Pushkar Ghanekar is a senior research advisor at Eli Lilly & Company's small molecule discovery group where he works as informatics lead for advancing early-stage drug discovery campaigns across different therapeutic areas and modalities. His primary expertise is in cheminformatics, reaction informatics, generative AI. He received his Chemical engineering PhD in 2021 from Purdue University with Prof. Jeffrey Greeley developing graph neural network based sampling strategies to better describe atomic-level complexities of batteries and fuel cells.