People
People in ai for science
50 people in the USASI People directory whose profiles list ai for science as a field of their work. Listed alphabetically; this is not a ranking. Each profile covers public professional work only, cited to official pages.
Abdul Fatir Ansari
Senior Applied Scientist, AWS AI, Amazon Web Services
Senior Applied Scientist at AWS and first author of the Chronos and Chronos-2 time series forecasting models
Abhimanyu Das
Principal Research Scientist, heading work on predictive models for structured data, Google
Google Principal Research Scientist leading structured-data models such as TimesFM; TimesFM paper first author
Aditya Grover
Co-founder and CTO, Inception
Co-founder and CTO of Inception; Assistant Professor of Computer Science at UCLA leading the MINT group
Alex Rives
Head of Science, Biohub
Head of Science at Biohub; founder and former chief scientist of EvolutionaryScale, developer of ESM3
Alexandre Gramfort
Research Science Director, Meta
Co-creator of scikit-learn and initial creator of MNE-Python; Research Science Director at Meta Reality Labs
Ali Madani
Co-founder and CEO, Profluent
Co-founder and CEO of Profluent; led the ProGen protein language model work at Salesforce AI Research
Andrew White
Head of Science and co-founder, FutureHouse
Co-founder and Head of Science of FutureHouse; co-founder and CTO of Edison Scientific
Anima Anandkumar
Bren Professor of Computing and Mathematical Sciences, California Institute of Technology
Bren Professor at Caltech; Fourier Neural Operator co-author; former NVIDIA senior director of AI research
Brian Hie
Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering; Principal Investigator, Laboratory of Evolutionary Design, Stanford University
Stanford assistant professor and Arc Institute Innovation Investigator; co-senior author of Evo 2
Christopher Bishop
Technical Fellow and founder of Microsoft Research AI for Science, Microsoft Research
Microsoft Technical Fellow, founder of Microsoft Research AI for Science, and machine learning textbook author
Daphne Koller
Founder & CEO, Board Member, insitro
Founder and CEO of insitro, Coursera co-founder, and Stanford adjunct professor of computer science
Darío Gil
Under Secretary for Science, U.S. Department of Energy
Under Secretary for Science at the U.S. Department of Energy; former IBM SVP and Director of Research
David Wadden
Research scientist, working on post-training for Gemini, Google DeepMind
Research scientist at Google DeepMind on Gemini post-training; former Ai2 researcher on OLMo and Tülu
Eric Horvitz
Chief Scientific Officer, Microsoft
Chief Scientific Officer of Microsoft and former director of Microsoft Research
Gabriele Corso
Co-founder, Boltz
Co-founder of Boltz and co-author of the open Boltz models and DiffDock for molecular modeling
Garyk Brixi
Researcher training genome language models in the EvoDesign Lab, Stanford University (EvoDesign Lab) and Arc Institute
First-listed author of Evo 2, the genome language model from Arc Institute and Stanford
Gilles Louppe
Professor; group leader of the Science with AI Lab (SAIL), Montefiore Institute, University of Liège
Professor at the University of Liège leading the Science with AI Lab; former scikit-learn core developer
Graham Taylor
Professor and Canada Research Chair in Machine Learning, University of Guelph
University of Guelph professor and Vector Institute faculty member building deep learning for biodiversity
Guolin Ke
SVP of AI, DP Technology
Creator of LightGBM; SVP of AI at DP Technology and former senior researcher at Microsoft Research Asia
Hoifung Poon
General Manager, Microsoft Health Futures (as introduced in February 2025), Microsoft Health Futures
Introduced in 2025 as general manager of Microsoft Health Futures; co-author of LLaVA-Med and Medprompt
Jack Dent
Co-founder, Chai Discovery
Co-founder of Chai Discovery and co-author of the Chai-1 and Chai-2 technical reports
Jacques Boitreaud
Co-founder, Chai Discovery
Co-founder of Chai Discovery and co-author of the Chai-1 and Chai-2 technical reports
Jakob Uszkoreit
Co-founder and CEO, Inceptive
Co-founder and CEO of Inceptive; co-author of the Transformer paper during Google's language research
James Braza
EECS PhD student, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Second author of FutureHouse's ether0 chemistry model and contributor to its open-source agent tooling
Ján Drgoňa
Associate Professor, Department of Civil and Systems Engineering (since January 2025), Johns Hopkins University
Johns Hopkins associate professor and lead developer of PNNL's NeuroMANCER scientific machine learning library
Jeffrey A. Ruffolo
Machine learning team member, Profluent
Member of Profluent's machine learning team; co-author of the Profluent-E1 and ProGen3 protein model preprints
Jeremy Wohlwend
Co-founder, Boltz
Co-founder of Boltz and first author of Boltz-1, an open model for biomolecular interaction prediction
Jong Youl Choi
Researcher, Discrete Algorithms Group, Computer Science and Mathematics Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Researcher at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and a developer of the HydraGNN graph neural network library
Josef Sivic
Professor of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence; head of the IMPACT group, Czech Institute of Informatics, Robotics and Cybernetics (CIIRC), Czech Technical University
Professor at CIIRC, Czech Technical University, and head of the IMPACT group; consults for Adobe Research
Joshua Meier
Co-founder and CEO, Chai Discovery
Co-founder and CEO of Chai Discovery, which builds AI models for designing molecules and antibodies
Kimberly S. Budil
Director (since March 2021) and president of Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Director of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and president of Lawrence Livermore National Security
Kyunghyun Cho
Glen de Vries Professor of Health Statistics; Professor of Computer Science and Data Science, New York University
NYU professor of computer science and data science; co-author of the RNN encoder-decoder and attention papers
Liam Fedus
Listed under "Who we are" on the Periodic Labs homepage, Periodic Labs
On the Periodic Labs team; first author of Switch Transformers; in OpenAI o1 reasoning research leadership
Massimiliano Lupo Pasini
Data scientist, Computational Coupled Physics group, Computational Sciences and Engineering Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Data scientist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory who led development of the HydraGNN graph neural network
Matthew McPartlon
Co-founder, Chai Discovery
Co-founder of Chai Discovery and co-author of the Chai-1 and Chai-2 technical reports
Patrick Hsu
Co-founder and Core Investigator, leading the Hsu Lab, Arc Institute
Co-founder and Core Investigator at Arc Institute; leads the Hsu Lab behind the Evo genome models
Peter Lee
President, Microsoft Science, Microsoft
President of Microsoft Science; previously led Microsoft Research's worldwide laboratories
Priscilla Chan
Co-founder, Biohub
Co-founder of Biohub and co-founder and co-CEO of the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative
Pushmeet Kohli
Vice President, Google DeepMind
Vice President at Google DeepMind and Chief Scientist of Google Cloud; AlphaFold co-author
Rajat Sen
Research Scientist, Google Research
Google Research scientist and one of the creators of TimesFM, the time-series forecasting foundation model
Sam Rodriques
CEO and co-founder, FutureHouse
CEO and co-founder of FutureHouse and Edison Scientific, building AI agents for scientific research
Sarthak Jain
Machine learning team member, Profluent
Member of Profluent's machine learning team and first author of the Profluent-E1 protein encoder models
Sergey Edunov
CTO, Genesis Molecular AI
CTO of Genesis Molecular AI; formerly led development of Meta's Llama 2 and Llama 3 models
Siddharth Narayanan
Listed organization on GitHub profile, Edison Scientific
First author of FutureHouse's ether0 chemistry reasoning model and the Aviary language-agent framework
Silvana Konermann
Co-founder, Executive Director and Core Investigator, leading the Konermann Lab, Arc Institute
Co-founder and Executive Director of Arc Institute; Core Investigator leading the Konermann Lab
Simon See
Senior Director, Chief Solution Architect and Global Head, NVIDIA AI Technology Center, NVIDIA
Global Head of the NVIDIA AI Technology Center and Chief Solution Architect at NVIDIA
Stephen K. Streiffer
Laboratory Director (since October 2023), Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Director of Oak Ridge National Laboratory; former interim director of SLAC and Argonne deputy director
Tim Costa
Vice president and general manager of quantum; leads the industrial engineering and quantum verticals and the CUDA-X product line, NVIDIA
VP and general manager of quantum at NVIDIA; earlier led product management for NVIDIA HPC software
Yejin Choi
Dieter Schwarz Foundation Professor of Computer Science; Senior Fellow, Stanford HAI, Stanford University
Stanford professor and HAI Senior Fellow; formerly at NVIDIA, the University of Washington, and Ai2
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