- Head of Science and co-founder, FutureHouse12
- CTO and co-founder, Edison Scientific3
Andrew White is a co-founder and the Head of Science of FutureHouse, a nonprofit that builds AI systems for scientific discovery, and a co-founder and the CTO of Edison Scientific, the company that spun out of FutureHouse in 2025. Edison's team page credits White with leading AI-for-science projects including the ChemCrow chemistry agent, the ether0 reasoning model and the PaperQA literature agent, and notes earlier work as a professor and researcher in machine learning for chemistry, explainable AI, statistical mechanics and chemical engineering.123
At a glance
- Current roles
- Head of Science and co-founder +1 more
- Companies
- FutureHouse, Edison Scientific
- Sector
- Nonprofit
- Fields
- AI for science, Agents
- Work listed
- 4
- Sources cited
- 13
- Profile reviewed
Career
Before FutureHouse, White worked as a professor and researcher in machine learning for chemistry, explainable AI, statistical mechanics and chemical engineering, and Edison notes junior investigator awards from the NSF and NIH. White co-founded FutureHouse with Sam Rodriques in 2023.32
In November 2025, White and Rodriques launched Edison Scientific to commercialize FutureHouse's AI Scientist. White is now Head of Science at FutureHouse and CTO at Edison.413
Research
White's work centers on language agents for science. ChemCrow connected a language model to chemistry tools, PaperQA and PaperQA2 answer questions from scientific literature, and the Aviary framework trains language agents on tasks ranging from literature research to protein design.567892
White is the senior author of the ether0 paper, which trains a reasoning model for chemistry with reinforcement learning, and a co-author of Robin, a multi-agent system for automating scientific discovery.1011
Work and contributions
ChemCrow Published research
Co-author of the 2023 ChemCrow paper, which augments large language models with chemistry tools for tasks in organic synthesis, drug discovery and materials design.5
PaperQA and PaperQA2 Open-source code
Senior author of the PaperQA (2023) and PaperQA2 (2024) papers on agents for scientific literature, released as the open-source, Apache-2.0 paper-qa package.6712
ether0 Open weights
Senior author of the 2025 paper on ether0, a reasoning model for chemistry trained with reinforcement learning and released by FutureHouse as open source.1023
ether0 (24B) Open weights
Last-listed author of the ether0 paper (arXiv 2506.17238), which the ether0 model card cites.1013
Timeline
- Co-founded FutureHouse with Sam Rodriques.2
- Co-authored ChemCrow, a paper on augmenting large language models with chemistry tools.5
- Was the senior author of the PaperQA paper on an agent for scientific research.6
- Was the senior author of the PaperQA2 paper on synthesis of scientific knowledge.7
- Was the senior author of the Aviary paper on training language agents for science.8
- Was the senior author of the paper introducing the ether0 chemistry reasoning model.10
- Co-announced Edison Scientific as a commercial spinout of FutureHouse.4
Where they work
- FutureHouse 4 people in the wiki
- Edison Scientific 3 people in the wiki
Related people
- Siddharth NarayananAlso at FutureHouse
- James BrazaAlso at FutureHouse
- Sam RodriquesAlso at FutureHouse
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- Jason WestonAgents
- Clay BavorAgents
- John YangAgents
- Qingyun WuAgents
- Shimon WhitesonAgents
- Jeremy WohlwendAI for science
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References
13 sources · profile reviewed Oct 21, 2026 · data updated Oct 22, 2026
- Team — FutureHouse
- About — FutureHouse
- Team — Edison Scientific
- Announcing Edison Scientific
- ChemCrow: Augmenting large-language models with chemistry tools (arXiv 2304.05376)
- PaperQA: Retrieval-Augmented Generative Agent for Scientific Research (arXiv 2312.07559)
- Language agents achieve superhuman synthesis of scientific knowledge (arXiv 2409.13740)
- Aviary: training language agents on challenging scientific tasks (arXiv 2412.21154)
- Future-House/aviary README (Apache-2.0)
- Training a Scientific Reasoning Model for Chemistry (arXiv 2506.17238)
- Robin: A multi-agent system for automating scientific discovery (arXiv 2505.13400)
- Future-House/paper-qa README (Apache-2.0)
- futurehouse/ether0 model card