Jian Tang

Jian Tang is a computer scientist and founder of BioGeometry, a generative-AI protein-design startup. He holds a faculty position at Mila, the Quebec AI Institute affiliated with Université de Montréal, where he is an associate professor with tenure . His research background is in geometric deep learning and deep generative models applied to graph-structured data, placing him among the earliest researchers to apply deep learning to molecular and protein structures . He launched BioGeometry in 2021 (some Gaorong materials cite 2022) to build what he describes as a "ChatGPT for life sciences" — generative models that create novel proteins and molecules for drug discovery and broader bio-manufacturing . The company counts Turing Award winner Yoshua Bengio as its chief scientific adviser and has raised angel and pre-A funding from Gaorong Ventures .