2019 Fellow Durham Smith

Artificial Intelligence & Artificial General Intelligence Durham works towards using artificial intelligence and quantum computing to explore chemical space to find molecules able to solve the problems the world faces. Durham’s goal is to harness the power of chemistry to the extent that nature has, without taking the time it took nature. This means creating better tools to discover/design chemical and chemical systems of interest. He believes that the recent advances in AI & quantum computing offer the promise to provide us with the ability to do just that. The incredible impact this would have on society coupled with how incredibly interesting these fields are what drives the work Durham does. Durham is the CEO of Futurefy, which develops cutting edge machine learning models to greatly improve the speed of calculation of molecular properties and structures. These models are integrated into molecule discovery pipelines to help industries find the molecules needed to solve their specific problems.