Michael Schaarschmidt

I am currently the Co-Head of AI research at Isomorphic Labs, a company spun out of DeepMind focused on applying machine learning to drug design. For the past few years, I have been leading the structure modeling team and other foundational research towards building the successor models of AlphaFold. My research interests are on the intersection of machine learning and distributed systems, especially how to think about scaling all aspects of biomolecular foundation models.

Prior to Isomorphic Labs, I worked as a Senior Research Scientist in DeepMind's Technical Infrastructure Research team, working on optimizations for large model compilers (PartIR, an MLIR dialect), as well on as applications of these compilers to molecular modelling.

Before DeepMind, I completed an MPhil as well as a PhD in the systems research group at the University of Cambridge, where I also was a Google PhD fellow in systems.

My recent work can most easily be found on Google Scholar.

Contact

Feel free to get in touch at: contact[at]michaelschaarschmidt.com

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