Danilo Jimenez Rezende is the Executive Director & Principal Scientist at the AI Robotics Institute at EIT. In this role, he leads a multidisciplinary team focused on advancing AI for scientific discovery, developing new models to tackle challenges in biomolecular simulations and design, microbial engineering and robotics.

Before joining EIT, Danilo was a Director at Google DeepMind, where he spent over a decade at the forefront of AI research. He led multiple projects on AI for scientific applications, working on AI for nuclear physics, materials discovery, computer vision, AI agents, and medicine. Danilo also spearheaded foundational research in generative models, variational inference, and AI agents, co-authoring over 110 papers and patents.

Danilo holds a Ph.D. in Computational and Cognitive Neuroscience from École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, an MSc in Theoretical Physics from École Polytechnique (France), and a BSc in Physics from the same institution.

In his spare time, he enjoys spending time with his family, reading and coding. Danilo is excited to be part of EIT’s mission to drive transformative AI innovations and accelerate scientific discovery for the benefit of humanity.