Edison is built by scientists and engineers from leading institutions across physics, biology, chemistry, and AI.

Sam Rodriques

CEO, Co-Founder

Sam is a physicist and bioengineer, and is co-founder, director and CEO of Edison Scientific and FutureHouse. Sam has invented technologies for spatial and temporal transcriptomics, brain mapping, gene therapy, and nanofabrication, and briefly ran an academic lab at the Francis Crick Institute prior to launching FutureHouse.

Andrew White

Co-Founder, CTO

Andrew is Co-Founder and CTO at Edison, where he has led multiple AI for science projects including ChemCrow (first LLM agents in chemistry), ether0 (first reasoning model in a scientific domain), and paperqa (first superhuman literature agent). Andrew has been a professor and researcher in ML in chemistry, explainable AI, statistical mechanics, and chemical engineering, and has received numerous awards, including junior investigator awards from the NSF and NIH. Andrew is an active member of the scientific community as a peer reviewer for over 30 journals, multiple national and private grant awarding institutions.

Lauren Stahl

Head of GTM

Lauren is Head of GTM at Edison, where they lead commercial strategy and go-to-market. Previously, they were Chief Commercial Officer at Lumanity and VP and Head of Sales at Komodo Health.

Ludovico Mitchener

Head of Applied AI

Ludo is Head of Applied AI at Edison. He is a two-time founder, interdisciplinary scientist, and engineer focused on advancing human and planetary health. An occasional angel investor, Ludo has been recognized as a Forbes 30 Under 30 honoree in Science.

Meagan

Head of Product

Meagan is Head of Product at Edison, where she leads product development for Edison’s AI scientist Kosmos and the overall Edison Platform. Before that she was the first PM hire at Figma, where she launched Figma Organization, and held product and engineering roles at Webflow and Slack.

Michael Skarlinski

Head of Platform

Michael is Head of Platform at Edison, where he leads engineering efforts to deploy and scale AI agents for science. Previously, he led FutureHouse's platform team and has spent a decade building ML and software engineering teams.

Michaela Hinks

Head of Science

Michaela is Head of Science at Edison. She has extensive experience leveraging synthetic biology and genomics technologies to make discoveries in gene regulation.

Jon Laurent

Member of Technical Staff

Jon is a molecular biologist who has developed multiple platform technologies for high-throughput genomic studies and diagnostics, and led teams and large-scale projects across academic centers and industry.

Siddharth Narayanan

Member of Technical Staff

Siddharth is a physicist who is deeply passionate about making science more efficient by building systems that scale human capability. He has conducted ML research focusing on representation learning for transcriptomics, protein design, and scientific reasoning.

Tony Kulesa

Executive Director

Tony is a Partner at Pillar VC, where he invests across biotech and deep tech. He was a founding board member at FutureHouse, and his investments at Pillar include Latent Labs, Nabla Bio, and Portal Biotech.