Ed Pyzer-Knapp
Member since 2023
The UK Young Academy provides an amazing opportunity to work with a unique group of highly talented and motivated individuals and help define the discussions which will shape all our futures.
Bio
Ed is a co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer at Xyme – a stealth-mode startup in the field of AI for Science. Previously he was Head of Research Innovation at IBM UK and Ireland, providing leadership on the convergence of HPC, AI and Quantum Computing to accelerate scientific discovery.
He is interested in the use of powerful emerging technologies to help to answer some of the biggest challenges of our time, especially through the lens of modelling and simulation. He obtained his PhD from the University of Cambridge, and then moved to Harvard University, finally leaving to help start the IBM Research Lab in the UK in 2015. He holds a visiting Professorship at the University of Liverpool, and an honorary position at the University of Cambridge. Ed is also Editor in Chief of the Wiley journal Applied AI Letters, has authored more than 60 papers and conference proceedings, filed multiple patents, and has authored a textbook on the use of AI for physical science, published by Wiley in 2021.
