John M. Jumper

For other people named John Jumper, see John Jumper (disambiguation).

John Jumper
Jumper in 2024
Born
John Michael Jumper

1985 (age 38–39)[1]
Little Rock, Arkansas, U.S.[1]
Education
Known forAlphaFold
AwardsNature's 10 (2021)
BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award (2022)
Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences (2023)
Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2024)
Scientific career
FieldsArtificial intelligence
Machine learning
InstitutionsGoogle
DeepMind
ThesisNew methods using rigorous machine learning for coarse-grained protein folding and dynamics (2017)
Doctoral advisorTobin R Sosnick
Karl Freed

John Michael Jumper (born 1985)[1] is an American chemist and computer scientist. He currently serves as director at Google DeepMind.[2][3][4] Jumper and his colleagues created AlphaFold,[5] an artificial intelligence (AI) model to predict protein structures from their amino acid sequence with high accuracy.[6] Jumper stated that the AlphaFold team plans to release 100 million protein structures.[7]

The scientific journal Nature included Jumper as one of the ten "people who mattered" in science in their annual listing of Nature's 10 in 2021.[6][8] Jumper and Demis Hassabis were awarded half of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their predictions of protein structures.[9][10]

  1. ^ a b c "John M. Jumper: Facts". The Nobel Prize. Nobel Prize Outreach AB. 2024. Retrieved October 9, 2024.
  2. ^ John M. Jumper publications indexed by Google Scholar Edit this at Wikidata
  3. ^ John M. Jumper publications from Europe PubMed Central
  4. ^ Eisenstein, Michael (2021). "Artificial intelligence powers protein-folding predictions". Nature. 599 (7886). Springer Nature: 706–708. doi:10.1038/d41586-021-03499-y. S2CID 244528561. Retrieved December 24, 2021.
  5. ^ Cite error: The named reference afold was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  6. ^ a b Maxmen, Amy (2021). "Nature's 10: John Jumper: Protein predictor". Nature. 600 (7890). Springer Nature: 591–604. doi:10.1038/d41586-021-03621-0. PMID 34912110. S2CID 245256541.
  7. ^ Browne, Grace (2021). "DeepMind's AI has finally shown how useful it can be". wired.com. Retrieved December 24, 2021.
  8. ^ John M. Jumper on LinkedIn Edit this at Wikidata
  9. ^ "The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2024". Nobel Media AB. Retrieved October 9, 2024.
  10. ^ "Press release: The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2024". NobelPrize.org. Retrieved October 9, 2024.