Meet the team

FutureHouse brings together experts across disciplines to scale scientific research and accelerate the pace of discovery.

FutureHouse Fellows

The FutureHouse Fellowship program supports recent PhD graduates who chart their own scientific paths at the intersection of AI and science.

2025 Cohort

Sarah Gurev

Sarah is a machine learning researcher specializing in protein design and virology.

Philine Guckelberger
Co-Advisor:
Jesse Engreitz

Philine is a molecular biologist fascinated by 3D genome architecture and epigenomic regulation.

Laura Luebbert
Co-Advisor:
Pardis Sabeti

Laura is a computational biologist specializing in machine learning methods for infectious disease discovery and triage.

Dániel Barabási
Co-Advisor:
None

Dániel was awarded a PhD in Biophysics from Harvard in 2023. His work blends neuroscience, network science, and machine learning.

Chenghao Liu
Co-Advisor:
Frances Arnold

Chenghao is a chemist and machine-learning scientist working at the interface of molecular design and emergent physical properties.

Blake Lash
Co-Advisor:
Fei Chen

Blake is a molecular biologist dedicated to accelerating the discovery of next-generation therapies.

FutureHouse Fellows

The FutureHouse Fellowship program supports recent PhD graduates who chart their own scientific paths at the intersection of AI and science.

Andrew Lu
Co-Advisor:
Michael Elowitz

Andrew is closing the loop between AI-driven design and experimental validation to accelerate the discovery of programmable therapeutics. These therapies will expand how cells sense, compute, and act inside the human body.

Soojung Yang
Co-Advisor:
Grant Rotskoff

Soojung will build machine learning models that unify protein structure, thermodynamics, and kinetics, and deploy agentic AI to search variant space and enable biochemistry-informed protein optimization.

Jeremy Koob
Co-Advisor:
David Baker

Jeremy will develop and integrate AI agents into protein design workflows to accelerate the discovery of biocatalysts for sustainable chemistry.

Alexander Starr
Co-Advisor:
Alex Pollen
Kavli-Supported Fellow

Alex will use AI scientists to massively expand the scope and scale of these evolutionary genomics analyses, with the goal of uncovering the genetic basis of behavioral adaptations and neurological disease across the mammalian tree of life.

Hanqing Liu

Hanqing will build AI-driven frameworks that integrate large-scale single-cell and functional genomics datasets to reconstruct the regulatory architecture of psychiatric disorders and generate mechanistic hypotheses at scale.

Sarah Gurev

Sarah is a machine learning researcher specializing in protein design and virology.

Philine Guckelberger
Co-Advisor:
Jesse Engreitz

Philine is a molecular biologist fascinated by 3D genome architecture and epigenomic regulation.

Laura Luebbert
Co-Advisor:
Pardis Sabeti

Laura is a computational biologist specializing in machine learning methods for infectious disease discovery and triage.

Dániel Barabási
Co-Advisor:
None

Dániel was awarded a PhD in Biophysics from Harvard in 2023. His work blends neuroscience, network science, and machine learning.

Chenghao Liu
Co-Advisor:
Frances Arnold

Chenghao is a chemist and machine-learning scientist working at the interface of molecular design and emergent physical properties.

Blake Lash
Co-Advisor:
Fei Chen

Blake is a molecular biologist dedicated to accelerating the discovery of next-generation therapies.

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