Linfeng Zhang

Linfeng Zhang is the founder and chief scientist of DeepWise (DP Technology, 深势科技), an AI-for-science company he co-founded in 2018 with Weijie Sun after the two spent summers sketching out how AI and scientific computing could meet real industrial needs . A Princeton PhD, he reportedly turned down an offer from DeepMind to return to China and lead the company . Before that, he and mathematician Weinan E won the Gordon Bell Prize — the top award in high-performance computing — for their breakthrough in "deep potential" molecular simulation, the technical line DeepWise grew out of . He also serves as dean of the Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence (北京科学智能研究院) .