Ian Naccarella
CEO & Co-Founder
MS Chemical Engineering, Stanford
MIT entrepreneurial fellow and HBS MBA, commercializing ideas out of academia
Research: Catalysis and battery materials at Stanford and Sila Nanotechnologies
Team: Built by researchers, for researchers
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Eric Riesel
CTO & Co-Founder
PhD Chemistry, MIT
Experimental chemist and ML researcher
Research: Quantum materials, generative models, and one of the first generative approaches for chemical experimental data
Yankang Yang
COO & Co-Founder
EECS, Harvard
Former BCG Principal who led the firmwide AI program across a 30,000+ person firm
Research: Robotics and cellular biosignaling at Harvard's Wyss Institute and Roswell Park
Advisors: Guided by leaders in science and industry
Simon Billinge
Professor & CNSI Director, UCSB
PhD Materials Science, UPenn
Pioneer of AI-driven local-structure analysis using X-ray, neutron, and electron diffraction
Mingda Li
Associate Professor, MIT
PhD Nuclear Science & Engineering, MIT
Machine learning for quantum materials, neutron scattering, and thermal transport; 2025 APS Fellow
Ashwin Sreenivas
Co-Founder & CTO, Decagon
BS & MS Computer Science, Stanford
Building enterprise conversational AI at one of the fastest growing AI companies
