Alán Aspuru-Guzik

Senior Director of Quantum Chemistry, NVIDIA; Professor of Chemistry of Computer Science, University of Toronto Director, Acceleration Consortium; Canada CIFAR AI Chair, NVIDIA, University of Toronto, Acceleration Consortium. Alán Aspuru-Guzik is a Professor at the University of Toronto, with primary appointments in the Departments of Chemistry and Computer Science and cross-appointments in Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry, Materials Science and Engineering, and the Institute of Medical Science. He is Senior Director at NVIDIA Research, CIFAR AI Chair at the Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Director of the Acceleration Consortium, and Co-Director of the CIFAR Accelerated Decarbonization program. His research centers on the integration of artificial intelligence, automation, and the natural sciences, with applications spanning functional materials, robotics, and quantum computing. He is Editor-in-Chief of the Royal Society of Chemistry journal Digital Discovery and Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada