Raphael Townshend, PhD is the Founder and CEO of Atomic AI. He earned his doctorate in the artificial intelligence laboratory at Stanford University, where he taught in both its premier machine learning and computational biology courses. His work has been featured on the cover of Science, recognized by a Best Paper award at the world’s leading machine learning conference NeurIPS, and appeared in top venues such as Nature, Cell, and ICLR. He has been recognized in Forbes 30 Under 30 and worked on the Nobel Prize-winning AlphaFold team at DeepMind.