John M. Jumper
Country:
USA
John Michael Jumper is a senior research scientist at DeepMind Technologies. Jumper and his colleagues created AlphaFold, which uses artificial intelligence (AI) to predict protein structures from their amino acid sequence with high accuracy. Jumper has stated that the AlphaFold team plans to release 100 million protein structures. The scientific journal Nature included Jumper as one of the ten people who mattered in science in their annual listing of Nature's 10 in 2021.