John M. Jumper
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John Michael Jumper is an American senior research scientist at DeepMind Technologies.[4][5][6] Jumper and his colleagues created AlphaFold,[7] an artificial intelligence (AI) model to predict protein structures from their amino acid sequence with high accuracy.[8] Jumper has stated that the AlphaFold team plans to release 100 million protein structures.[9] 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.[8][2]
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John Jumper | |
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Born | John Michael Jumper |
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Known for | AlphaFold |
Awards | Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences (2023) Nature's 10 (2021) BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award (2022) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Artificial intelligence Machine learning |
Institutions | Google DeepMind |
Thesis | New methods using rigorous machine learning for coarse-grained protein folding and dynamics (2017) |
Doctoral advisor | Tobin R Sosnick[3] Karl Freed[3] |
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