Hugo Bendones co-created the AlphaFold algorithm, developed by a company founded by Demis Hassabis, one of the laureates.
Hugo Benidones worked at DeepMind from 2015 to 2019 and was part of the initial group for the AlphaFold project, developed by the company founded by Demis Hassabis. Photo: Dr
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced today, Wednesday, the award of a prize Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2024 By North American scientists David Becker and John M. Jumper and Briton Demis Hassabis, “for computational design of proteins” and “for protein structure prediction.”
in Note published on the official website, The decision is justified by the fact that “Demis Hassabis and John Jumper They successfully used artificial intelligence to predict the structure of almost all known proteins David Becker has learned to master the basic elements of life and create entirely new proteins.
But there is a strange fact after the Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded: Hugo Bendonesa former student of Information Technology and Computer Engineering at Faculty of Engineering at the University of Porto (FEUP), He was He participated in the creation of the AlphaFold algorithm, which was developed At DeepMind in the UK (which had in the meantime been acquired by Google), of which Demis Hassabis was one of the founders.
Hugo Benidones worked at DeepMind from 2015 to 2019 and was part of the initial group of the AlphaFold project, which has already seen several developments and releases. The passage and participation of FEUP alumni led to the creation of an article In the magazine natureco-authored by Nobel laureates in chemistry John M. Jumper and Demis Hassabis (among others).
“Although my contributions were modest, it gives me great pleasure to be involved in starting a project that ended up being recognized with a Nobel Prize. AlphaFold may have been the first major AI success in basic science, but I expect more to come in the coming years.” inductive “We are building a scientific computing platform that can be used to generate synthetic data in physics, chemistry, biology, etc., to train the AlphaFolds of the future, even for problems where there is no experimental data,” says the college graduate. Engineering.
Hugo Benedonis is the current CTO Inductive.AIan artificial intelligence startup dedicated to developing a platform that allows engineers, scientists, and entrepreneurs to simulate, predict, and optimize physical processes in various industries.
In January 2024, he received an award Occasional FEUP sealWhen it managed to secure €2.25 million in an investment round.
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