Hector Zenil

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About Hector Zenil

I am an Associate Professor/Senior Lecturer in Bioengineering at King's College London (KCL) where I lead & conduct research & develop technology at the intersection of information theory, complexity science, causal universal and beneficial AI at the Departments of Biomedical Computing and Digital Twins and the King’s Institute for AI.A Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine (FRSM) for the last 10 years, I am also a visionary and deep tech entrepreneur operating, leading & advising in multiple countries. Founder of Oxford Immune Algorithmics, incubated by the U. of Oxford, Cambridge,/ King’s College London, accelerated by CDL at Georgia Tech & Toronto U. Operating globally from the UK devoted to next-gen health diagnostics, remote digital care, precision healthcare & predictive medicine.For the last 12 years affiliated with the UK’s Oxbridge and so-called ‘Golden Triangle’ universities: At Oxford, as a Senior Researcher & Faculty member at the Structural Biology Group, Dept of Computer Science; at Cambridge in the Machine Learning Group, Dept of Chemical Engineering & Biotechnology (CEB), and today in London at KCL.Previously, an Assistant Professor & Lab Leader at the Unit of Computational Medicine, Center for Molecular Medicine, Karolinska Institute (institution that awards the Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology).Also associate member of the Cancer Research Group at The Francis Crick Institute; board trustee of the British Society for Ageing Research, the oldest research society in longevity science, an elected member of the London Mathematical Society & a member of the Canadian College of Health Leaders.I introduced the field of Algorithmic Information Dynamics at the foundations of Artificial Universal Super Intelligence based on optimal causal inference.Contributed to W|A, the tech behind Siri & Alexa to answer contextual factual questions & the first official OpenAI's GPT plug-in to deal with hallucinations with factual grounding, a Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) method.Raised over USD 15m in grant & equity funds from Canada, US, & the UK as sole founder of OIA for the application AI to eradicate disease-related suffering.Author of 130+ peer-reviewed papers in journals such as Nature & the Royal Society, multiple books including Algorithmic Information Dynamics (Cambridge U. Press) and A Computable Universe (World Scientific/Imperial College) with a foreword by Sir Roger Penrose (Nobel Prize Physics 2020).Managing Editor of Complex Systems, the first journal in the field founded by Stephen Wolfram.Opinions are my own.