Afrah Shafquat is a Sr. Data Scientist II at Medidata, a Dassault Systemès company where she leads synthetic data solutions in clinical trials. At Medidata, her work focuses on innovative solutions to generate synthetic data, synthetic data evaluation (fidelity and privacy metrics), and new use cases for synthetic data. She has a Ph.D. in Computational Biology from Cornell University and an S.B. in Biological Engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.