
Nal KalchbrennerFounder
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Founding Member of Technical Staff at Project Prometheus
Pfau helped bring deep learning into quantum chemistry. He led FermiNet, which approximates the quantum behavior of electrons from first principles, and contributed to DM21, a learned density functional for more accurate molecular calculations; he now builds AI for the physical world at Prometheus.
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