Fellow types
Academic Fellow
Active PI / Associate Professor or above at universities and research institutes, covering all AI4S domains. Steers community research direction, provides high-quality training data, and co-authors papers.
- · Curate Mat-Benchmark problems
- · Co-supervise PhD / Master's interns
- · Priority access to community infrastructure and compute
Industrial Fellow
Senior engineers and instrument-OEM technical leads. Brings real production pain-points back into the community and accelerates Agent adoption in industry R&D pipelines.
- · Provide industrial datasets and scenario definitions
- · Lead review and release of Industrial-zone Agents
- · Co-publish industry whitepapers / case studies
Current Fellows (excerpt)
Sorted alphabetically. Each Fellow serves a two-year term and may renew.
Prof. Chen Siyuan
Computational Chemistry · Top-tier University
AcademicDr. Li Mingzhe
Battery Materials · Leading New-energy Co.
IndustrialAssoc. Prof. Wang Jianing
Protein Engineering · Key Lab
AcademicChief Zhang Qifan
Analytical Instruments · Instrument OEM
IndustrialDr. Zhao Hanqing
Computational Physics · CAS
AcademicChief Eng. Xu Ruoxi
Fine Chemicals · Listed Chemical Group
IndustrialAssoc. Prof. Zhou Jingyi
Earth Science · Double First-class Univ.
AcademicDirector Huang Yanbo
Lab Automation · Leading CDMO
IndustrialWho can apply?
- ≥ 5 years of research or engineering experience in an AI4S-related field
- Willing to contribute ≥ 16 hours per quarter to community affairs
- Willing to author Mat-Benchmark problems or feed back industrial datasets
- Aligned with Apache 2.0 open-source values and the community code of conduct
What you'll get
- Priority code access and unreleased-Agent beta privileges
- Joint authorship on papers / whitepapers / patents
- Community compute and server resources
- Main stage at Horizon events + exclusive 1-on-1 roundtables
- Annual closed-door Fellow Retreat