Elena Mercep

Imaging, AI & XR for Life Sciences | Dr. rer. nat.

Germany

About

⟡ Technology expert and product development professional with over a decade in MedTech, Life Sciences, and Pharmaceutical companies. ⟡ Skilled in software development and product ownership with experience delivering complex AI, mixed reality, and medical imaging solutions for regulated industries. ⟡ Received a doctorate from the Technical University of Munich, with expertise in biomedical engineering, system architecture, and multimodal imaging using conventional and ML techniques.

Experience

  • Associate Director, Imaging AI Product at AstraZeneca
    Oct 2024 - Present · 1 yr 10 mos

    Leading Imaging AI product development across three engineering teams, with strong focus on product quality, reliability, and operational excellence. Developing technical user enablement to drive adoption, impact, and M&A value realization in drug development within the Enterprise AI Unit.

  • Machine Learning Solution Architect at ramblr
    May 2022 - Sep 2024 · 2 yrs 5 mos

    Ramblr enables AI systems to see the world like humans by developing end-to-end data pipelines for generation of multi-sensor training data, specialized ML models and AI Assistants. My responsibilities included: • Supporting in strategic definition of product goals, defining the solution increments in coordination with the engineering leads. Reported to the CEO. • Solutions implementation for external and internal customers. Building, evaluating and helping to take proof of concepts (PoCs) into production, acting as a technical presales expert. • Developing new features and technical tools (information retrieval with vision-language models, video intelligence, data and CI/CD pipelines components), enhancing GenAI and AI/ML applications. • Owning a framework for assessing the quality and performance of the AI platform, enabling success metrics for measurement of business value and data-driven development decisions.

  • Product Owner, GxP Enterprise Augmented Reality at Goodly Innovations GmbH
    Aug 2019 - Apr 2022 · 2 yrs 9 mos

    Goodly Innovations is a provider of enterprise-grade augmented reality (AR) solutions to life sciences companies. My responsibilities included: • Defined product functionality, managed incremental product releases, helping to transform the OptiworX platform into the enterprise-grade AR solution, currently owned by one of the world's leading biopharmaceutical companies. Reported to the CEO. • Provided pre-/post-sales support via RFP inputs, tech enablement content and workshops with customers, ensuring product adoption from POC to scaled implementation. • Led technical discovery, supervised theses, R&D and integration projects (reinforcement learning in production scheduling, VR extension, MES integration), aligning product offering with customer needs.

  • R&D Engineer ⇒ Senior R&D Engineer ⇒ Senior Product Engineer at iThera Medical GmbH
    Dec 2013 - Jul 2019 · 5 yrs 8 mos

    iThera Medical develops and markets biomedical imaging systems. My responsibilities included: • Design and development of image processing and ultrasound tomography software solutions for multimodal optoacoustic/ultrasound (OA/US) imaging systems for pre-clinical and clinical research. Reported to the VP Software Development. • Provided 2nd/3rd level support to customers, ensuring seamless operation of imaging systems, both on-site and remotely. • Supervised theses, R&D projects for the application of deep learning models in OA/US image segmentation.

  • Working Student at GE HealthCare
    May 2013 - Oct 2013 · 6 mos

    Development and evaluation of new reconstruction methods for Carbon-13 nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy.