Hi, I’m Kyriakos and my passion is turning data into value.
I bridge the gap between software engineering and drug discovery, translating complex cheminformatics data into practical, data-driven solutions. My experience involves building high-impact tools to tackle complex cheminformatics challenges, like compound selection and reaction prediction. I am a proactive and detail-oriented team player, dedicated to solving scientific problems through collaboration. As a lifelong learner, I am motivated to continuously expand my skills to advance therapeutic development.
I have obtained my Ph.D. degree in Medical Artificial Intelligence from the University of Zurich, affiliated with the University Hospital Zurich and the ETH AI center. I am currently doing a PostDoc at ETH Zurich and Roche in Basel.
Work Experience
Roche & ETH Zurich
Postdoctoral Researcher - AI for Drug Discovery
February 2025 - Present | Basel, Switzerland
Cheminformatics and machine learning for reaction intelligence and compound design.
I collaborate with medicinal chemistry, CADD, and Computational Sciences teams on cheminformatics and AI for drug discovery. My work includes machine learning for atom mapping and reaction class annotation, analysis of a new reaction database at Roche, an ML-guided compound selection tool with a user-friendly GUI, and a golden set of building blocks for accelerated drug discovery.
Luzerner Kantonalbank AG
Machine Learning Scientist
February 2023 - December 2024 | Luzern, Switzerland
Production machine learning and data interoperability for customer analytics.
I worked across the full Big Data pipeline, from feature engineering in Oracle SQL to deploying and maintaining production AI models through MLOps processes. I also helped transition the team from a traditional Data Warehouse to a multi-cloud Databricks solution on Microsoft Azure.
University of Zurich
Machine Learning Scientist / Medical Researcher
April 2019 - January 2023 | Zurich, Switzerland
Medical AI research in computational pharmacology and data interoperability.
I developed an explainable PyTorch Transformer model to predict medication side effects from diverse data, including chemical structures. I analyzed UK Biobank data to study drug-disease relationships and built a Graph Neural Network with PyTorch and RDKit for drug synergy prediction.
fastforward websolutions
Software Engineer
February 2016 - July 2017 | Bern, Switzerland
Full-stack web development and CMS engineering in an Agile/Scrum environment.
I developed front-end applications with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, configured Magnolia CMS, extended its functionality in Java, and built REST and SOAP services. I used Git, Maven, Tomcat, Jenkins, and Docker while applying CI/CD best practices.
Education
University of Zurich
Ph.D. in Medical Artificial Intelligence
April 2019 - November 2022 | Zurich, Switzerland
University of Bern / University of Fribourg
MSc Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
September 2017 - March 2019
University of Bern
Biology, Immunology, and Oncology prerequisites
September 2015 - September 2017
University of Applied Sciences FHNW
BSc Computer and Data Science
September 2011 - September 2015 | Brugg, Switzerland
Skills
Expertise: Cheminformatics Small Molecule Research Software Engineering Machine Learning SQL Data Analytics
Cheminformatics: RDKit CIx Pipelines Reaction Prediction Compound Logistics Enumeration
Project Management: Agile Scrum Jira GitHub GitLab
Research: AI Drug Discovery Chemistry
Data Pipelines: SQL dbt Apache Spark Hadoop Snakemake
Software Development: Python Java R JavaScript
Machine Learning: PyTorch NLP GNN scikit-learn
High Performance Computing: Slurm Bash Docker Jenkins
Web Development: JavaScript REST SOAP
Languages
- German C2
- English C2
- Greek C2
- Spanish A2
Publications
Charting the evolving chemical synthesis repertoire at Roche
Schwarz, Kyriakos, et al. ChemRxiv preprint, 2026.
AttentionDDI: Siamese Attention-Based Deep Learning Method for Drug-Drug Interaction Predictions
Schwarz, Kyriakos, et al. BMC Bioinformatics, 2021.
DDoS: A Graph Neural Network Based Drug Synergy Prediction Algorithm
Schwarz, Kyriakos, et al. arXiv preprint, 2022.
Tumour Mutations in Long Noncoding RNAs Enhance Cell Fitness
Esposito, Roberta, et al. Nature Communications, 2023.
Awards
Roche Best Advanced Analytics Poster Award
Roche Advanced Analytics Network
2025
Certifications
- Databricks Data Analyst
- Databricks Data Engineer
- Databricks Generative AI
- Azure Cloud Fundamentals
- Neo4j Graph Data Science
Interests
- Chess
- Fitness
- Guitar