Haojun Jia

Haojun Jia is on a mission to unlock breakthrough materials with AI. His Hangzhou-based start-up Deep Principle fuses deep learning with first-principles computation, and has built pioneering AI models for materials R&D. The platform has drawn multiple rounds of investment from backers including Gobi Partners, Hillhouse Capital and Ant Group. With commercial clients such as L’Oréal, Deep Principle says its scientific discovery evaluation framework was co-developed with more than 50 researchers across more than 20 global institutions, including Oxford, MIT and Harvard.