Haoyu (Clara) Su

AI & Data Engineering | Data, health, and humanity - engineered together

My Path to Agents—and the Future I See for Pharma/Biotech

Multi-agent systems for coordinated scientific workflows

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Why Now ⁉️: Data Science → Data Engineering → GenAI → Multi-Agent Systems

My career across Deloitte, CDC, and Roche has shown me how much of drug development and surveillance still relies on fragmented workflows, manual coordination, and human effort just to move data from one step to the next.

Even with modern pipelines and dashboards, the real bottleneck has always been orchestration—translating strategy into experiments, experiments into analysis, and analysis into decisions.

When I started experimenting with GenAI and multi-agent systems, I realized they could do more than summarize documents—they could reason, coordinate, and collaborate across tasks the same way humans do.

Retriever Validator Reasoner Planner Visualizer

Suddenly, the pieces started working together.


🧠 From Pipelines to Agents

Traditional systems optimize data flow. Multi-agent systems optimize decision flow.

This shift inspired my vision of a Virtual Pharma Enterprise:

  • strategy → experiment design
  • experiment → data generation
  • data → analysis
  • analysis → decision

All coordinated by intelligent agents.


🔬 A Toy Multi-Agent Demo

To make this idea more concrete, I built a small prototype that simulates a multi-agent literature review workflow.

Open in Colab

Run the full toy pipeline interactively:


🧩 What this demo shows

  • retrieval of biomedical abstracts
  • summarization into evidence
  • validation / classification
  • final structured report