Alan Aspuru-Guzik

Alan Aspuru-Guzik, whose first name is also spelled with an accent as Alán, is a professor of chemistry, computer science, chemical engineering and materials science at the University of Toronto, and Senior Director of Quantum Chemistry at NVIDIA. He was raised in Mexico City, studied chemistry at the National Autonomous University of Mexico and took a doctorate in physical chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley in 2004. He taught at Harvard University from 2006 before moving to Toronto in 2018 as a Canada 150 Research Chair. His group studies quantum chemistry, AI for chemical and materials discovery and quantum computing, and in 2016 he worked with Google quantum engineer Ryan Babbush on a quantum algorithm for detecting molecules. He has contributed to hybrid quantum classical algorithms and co-founded Kebotix and Zapata Computing.