Markus J. BuehlerCo Founder

United States - Cambridge, Massachusetts

Markus J. Buehler is the McAfee Professor of Engineering at MIT and a pioneer in AI for science and engineering. He is also co-founder and CTO of Unreasonable Labs, where he is building AI systems that move beyond retrieval to generate genuinely novel scientific knowledge. He created powerful graph‑aware, multi‑agent AI models that turn heterogeneous data into science-grounded actionable insight, powering breakthroughs in materials science, biology and healthcare. His work on AI-driven knowledge discovery and graph reasoning showed how machine intelligence can drive scientific breakthroughs in nanotechnology, advanced materials, and protein science.

Buehler is among the world's most‑cited materials scientists and the recipient of numerous honors, including the Feynman Prize, ASME Drucker Medal, J. R. Rice Medal, and the Washington Award. He is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering. For more than a decade he has also taught executive and technical professionals at MIT, shaping the next generation of leaders in engineering, knowledge discovery, and artificial intelligence.