Theofanis Karaletsos

Theofanis Karaletsos is currently the Head of AI for Science at the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, where he leads efforts in AI for virtual cell models and the broader AI x Science landscape. He is also a co-founder, board member, and advisor at Achira.ai, a groundbreaking company operating at the intersection of physics, AI, statistical mechanics, and biomolecular simulation for drug discovery. Previously, Theofanis served as Vice President of AI at Insitro, was a staff research scientist at Facebook, a founding member and senior researcher at Uber AI Labs in San Francisco, and a researcher at Geometric Intelligence, an AI startup acquired by Uber. His work broadly focuses on advancing machine intelligence, with an emphasis on probabilistic machine learning, deep learning, and probabilistic programming . He is particularly passionate about applying these methods to scientific domains such as chemistry, healthcare, biology, and drug discovery.