Joshua JacobCo-founder and CTO · Sampura ResearchResearcher↗
Researcher · Founder · Executive
Rishub Jain
Sampura ResearchCEO and Co-founder
Rishub Jain helped build AlphaFold 2 and 3, systems that predict protein structures and molecular interactions. He later co-led Google DeepMind's work on scalable oversight—ways to evaluate increasingly capable AI—and now develops methods that combine human and AI judgment.
Career & education
Current roleSampura ResearchAug 2026-presentCEO and Co-founder
Sampura ResearchAug 2026-presentPreviously
Google DeepMindJul 2019-Jun 2026Research Engineer
Google DeepMindJul 2019-Jun 2026Work and education history is primarily focused on AI-relevant roles and may not be comprehensive.
Citation Trend
Total citations to scholarly work, including research papers, technical reports, books and theses, as recorded by Google Scholar. Each point is a dated snapshot.
citations98,048As of Oct 23, '26
citations+5,994Since last snapshot, Aug 27, '26
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Selected contributions
Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold
With John Jumper, Richard Evans, Alexander Pritzel, Tim Green, Michael Figurnov, Olaf Ronneberger, Kathryn Tunyasuvunakool and others ·Presented AlphaFold 2, predicting proteins' three-dimensional shapes from their sequences.
Accurate structure prediction of biomolecular interactions with AlphaFold 3
With Josh Abramson, Jonas Adler, Jack Dunger, Richard Evans, Tim Green, Alexander Pritzel, Olaf Ronneberger and others ·AlphaFold 3 predicts how proteins, DNA, RNA and other molecules fit together.
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Reviewed August 27, 2026 · Checked for accuracy and new information.