Kurt Thorn, Ph.D.
CTO · AI/ML for Drug Discovery · San Francisco, CA
I'm a proven builder of AI systems for real-world life sciences decision-making, with deep experience converting biological and chemical workflows into structured data, model objectives, and computational environments.
As the second employee and CTO of an ML-enabled antibiotic discovery company, I own AI/ML research strategy, scientific data infrastructure, and agentic workflow orchestration. Before that, I led a 30-person Data Science organization at Zymergen and ran a microscopy core and research lab at UCSF.
My work spans ML-guided drug discovery, LLM/agentic workflow orchestration, scientific data standards, cheminformatics, and AWS-scale ML infrastructure.