# Samuel Rodriques

> Samuel Rodriques is a physicist-turned-bioengineer and co-founder and CEO of Edison Scientific, the AI-driven scientific discovery company behind Kosmos - an AI scientist that reportedly condenses six months of PhD-level research into a single day. A MIT PhD and Hertz Fellow who invented implosion fabrication and pioneered spatial transcriptomics, Rodriques left the Francis Crick Institute to co-found FutureHouse (funded by Eric Schmidt) in 2023, then spun it into for-profit Edison Scientific, which raised a $70M seed round at a $250M valuation in December 2025. Named to Time 100 AI in 2025, he is on a mission to cure all diseases by mid-century through AI-accelerated science.

- **Role:** Co-founder and CEO at Edison Scientific
- **Organizations:** Edison Scientific, FutureHouse, The Francis Crick Institute
- **Nationality:** American
- **Education:** B.S. Physics (summa cum laude, highest honors), Haverford College, Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics; Computational Neuroscience research, University of Cambridge, PhD in Physics (Synthetic Neurobiology Group, Ed Boyden's lab), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
- **Known for:** Named to TIME 100 Most Influential People in AI (2025), Hertz Foundation Graduate Fellowship (2013), Hertz Thesis Prize (2019) for PhD work on mapping neural circuits

## Career timeline

- **2013** — Graduated Haverford College summa cum laude with Goldwater Scholarship; Churchill Scholarship to Cambridge
- **2013-2014** — University of Cambridge - Applied Mathematics, Theoretical Physics & computational neuroscience research
- **2014-2019** — PhD at MIT in Ed Boyden's Synthetic Neurobiology Group; invented implosion fabrication; co-developed spatial transcriptomics approaches
- **2019** — Awarded Hertz Thesis Prize and Newman-Galas Entrepreneurial Initiative Award for PhD work
- **2020** — Joined Francis Crick Institute in London as group leader for Applied Biotechnology Lab
- **2020** — Published essay (with Adam Marblestone and Tom Kalil via Federation of American Scientists) proposing Focused Research Organization model
- **2023** — Left Crick to co-found FutureHouse in San Francisco, backed by Eric Schmidt; focused on building AI scientists for biology
- **2024** — FutureHouse launched Kosmos AI Scientist platform; 30,000 researchers signed up; Sam Altman calls work 'exciting'
- **2025-11** — Spun out Edison Scientific as for-profit company from FutureHouse nonprofit
- **2025-12** — Edison Scientific raised $70M seed round at $250M valuation, led by Triatomic Capital and Spark Capital
- **2025** — Named to TIME 100 Most Influential People in AI 2025

## Achievements

- Named to TIME 100 Most Influential People in AI (2025)
- Hertz Foundation Graduate Fellowship (2013)
- Hertz Thesis Prize (2019) for PhD work on mapping neural circuits
- NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
- Churchill Scholarship (2013)
- Newman-Galas Entrepreneurial Initiative Award (2019)
- Barry Goldwater Scholarship (2013)
- Co-invented implosion fabrication - a nanoscale fabrication technique that shrinks objects 1,000-fold
- Pioneered spatial and temporal transcriptomics approaches at MIT
- Proposed the Focused Research Organization (FRO) model, now adopted by governments and philanthropic funders worldwide
- Built Kosmos AI scientist - a single run can read 1,500 papers and write 42,000 lines of code, equivalent to 6 months of PhD-level work
- Raised $70M seed round at $250M valuation for Edison Scientific (December 2025)
- Grew Edison Scientific / FutureHouse platform to 30,000+ researchers

## Latest updates

- **2025-12** — Edison Scientific raised $70M seed round at $250M valuation from Triatomic Capital, Spark Capital, and major biotech investors
- **2025-11** — Edison Scientific officially launched as for-profit spinout of FutureHouse, with Kosmos AI Scientist publicly available
- **2025-05** — Named to TIME 100 Most Influential People in AI 2025
- **2024** — Kosmos AI Scientist platform reached 30,000 users from academic and biotech sectors

## Links

- Website: https://www.sam-rodriques.com
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/samuel-g-rodriques-080a9b22
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/SGRodriques
- Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/sgrodriques.bsky.social

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Last updated: 2026-05-11