Alán Aspuru-Guzik

Alán Aspuru-Guzik

AAAS Fellow; Fellow of the American Physical Society; Professor in the Departments of Chemistry and Computer Science at the University of Toronto; Canada 150 Research Chair in Theoretical Chemistry and a Canada CIFAR AI Chair at the Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence; CIFAR Lebovic Fellow in the Biologically Inspired Solar Energy program; Google Industrial Research Chair in Quantum Computing; Director of the Acceleration Consortium, a University of Toronto-based strategic initiative.

Research Interests / Specializations:

The interfaces of quantum information, machine learning and chemistry. He was a pioneer in the development of algorithms and experimental implementations of quantum computers and quantum simulators dedicated to chemical systems.