about andrew

Andrew White is cofounder of FutureHouse and Edison Scientific. Andrew is also:

• is a scientist specialized in AI for Science (typically chemistry and biology)
• published 75 papers, including at NeurIPS, Nature, JACS, and other nice journals
• has given over 100 invited lectures at places like Harvard, MIT, Zhejiang University, and University of Tokyo
• raised $40M of philanthropic and government awards
• co-founded a company worth over $500M
• about 50,000 followers on LinkedIn and X
• been interviewed in Nature, New York Times, Financial Times, Bloomberg, and others
• been on multiple start-up advisory boards
• ran marathons and ultra-marathons
• advised multiple US federal agencies and OSTP on AI bio and chemical weapons safety
• tenured professor of chemical engineering at University of Rochester, but then resigned tenure
• won young investigator awards from the national science foundation and national institutes of health
• wrote a textbook about deep learning in chemistry: dmol.pub
• writes open source software with 1k followers at github and multiple repos with > 500 stars: github.com/whitead
• was a red-teamer for GPT-4 and o1 models at OpenAI
• is bad at answering emails in a timely fashion

recent projects

1. cofounding FutureHouse and Edison Scientific, that are really good at automating scientific discovery
2. creation of Kosmos, a persistent sandboxed code-writing agent that uses world models
3. training a 24B parameter SOTA reasoning model for chemistry (published at NeurIPS): huggingface.co/futurehouse/ether0
4. invented PaperQA, a super-human literature research agent: github.com/paper-qa
5. ChemCrow project (best paper at ML in physics workshop at NeurIPS 2023): https://www.nature.com/articles/s42256-024-00832-8
6. aviary project to train scientific agents, which the futurehouse platform is based on: https://platform.futurehouse.org/