I am interested in cheminformatics topics such as synthetic feasibility prediction,automated retrosynthetic analysis,and chemical space as elucidated in the patent literature.

Abraham Heifets is a PhD candidate in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Toronto and a member of the Ontario Cancer Institute, University Health Network of research hospitals, MaRS, Terrence Donnelly Centre for Cellular and Biomolecular Research, and the IBM Life Sciences Discovery Centre. He is supervised by Prof. Igor Jurisica. He received his Bachelors and Masters degrees from Cornell University.

Currently, Abraham applies classical artificial intelligence techniques to organic synthesis planning. Prior to attending the University of Toronto, he explored high-performance processing of XML at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center. Previously, he worked on a world champion robotic soccer team, a publish-subscribe system for location-based services, and single-agent search algorithms.