Alán Aspuru-Guzik
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Professor Alán Aspuru-Guzik “has emerged as one of the more convincing evangelists for the new way of doing chemistry,” reports MIT Technology Review, in its latest issue dedicated to computing.
Aspuru-Guzik, a professor in the departments of chemistry and computer science, is at the forefront of efforts to discover new materials faster than ever by leveraging machine learning, robotics and quantum computing.
The MIT Technology Review profile provides a deep dive on Aspuru-Guzik’s career and the work that he and other members of the Matter Lab are doing to accelerate, automate and reimagine processes that used to take decades so they can be completed in mere months or years.
By speeding up the materials discovery process, he hopes humans can be better prepared for the challenges presented by climate change and other crises.
Aspuru-Guzik is the director of the Acceleration Consortium, a University of Toronto-based strategic initiative that aims to gather researchers from industry, government and academia around pre-competitive research topics related to the lab of the future. He is the Canada 150 Research Chair in Theoretical and Quantum Chemistry and a CIFAR Lebovic Fellow. He is also a CIFAR AI Chair at the Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence.