Caltech alumnus Zhuoran Qiao (PhD '23), a machine learning scientist and founding scientist of San Francisco-based Chai Discovery, has received the grand prize of the inaugural Chen Institute and Science Prize for AI Accelerated Research for his innovative usage of artificial intelligence (AI) technology to accelerate scientific discovery in biochemistry. At Caltech, Qiao earned his PhD in chemistry under the advisory of Anima Anandkumar, a Bren Professor of Computing and Mathematical Sciences,