First winner of the ICTP-IBM Brahmagupta AI Prize for Early Career Scientists

ICTP and IBM announce that the inaugural winner of their joint ICTP-IBM Brahmagupta Artificial Intelligence Prize for Early Career Scientists is Professor Simon Olsson of Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden.

The citation reads, “for his pioneering work on the use of Artificial Intelligence methods in molecular simulations, overcoming long-standing computational problems in statistical mechanics, with translational impact on drug discovery and vaccine design.”