Nobel Prize Dialogue
Additional panellists will be added closer to the event day.
Minkyung Baek
Minkyung Baek is an Assistant Professor at Seoul National University who uses AI to predict and design proteins. She developed RoseTTAFold in the Nobel Prize–winning lab of David Baker.
Taeghwan Hyeon
Taeghwan Hyeon a SNU Distinguished Professor, and Director of IBS Center for Nanoparticle Research. He is a member of KAST, IVA and NAE. He serves as an Associate Editor of ACS Nano. More about Taeghwan Hyeon.
Sang-hyun Kim
Sang-hyun Kim is Professor and Chair of the School of Mathematics at the Korea Institute for Advanced Study, working in topology. He collaborates with Google DeepMind on AI-driven mathematical research.
Seon Joo Kim
Seon Joo Kim is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Yonsei University. His research spans computer vision, centred on how machines perceive and reason about the visual world as it unfolds over time.
Honglak Lee
Honglak Lee is an Executive Vice President and Chief Scientist of AI at LG AI Research and an Associate Professor at the University of Michigan, specialising in deep learning and computer vision.
Su-In Lee
Su-In Lee is the Boeing Endowed Professor of Computer Science at the University of Washington, recognised for pioneering explainable artificial intelligence and advancing both core AI and its applications to scientific discovery and human health.
Nobel Prize laureate
David MacMillan
Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2021.
David MacMillan shared the chemistry prize with Benjamin List “for the development of asymmetric organocatalysis”.
Nobel Prize laureate
Craig Mello
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2006
Craig Mello shared the 2006 medicine prize with Andrew Fire for their pioneering research on RNAi.
Alison Noble
Alison Noble is an inter-disciplinary researcher distinguished for her contributions to biomedical image analysis.
Eva Olsson
Eva Olsson received her PhD from Chalmers. She was a postdoc at IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights (New York, USA), a faculty at Chalmers, a full professor at Uppsala University, Sweden, and is currently a full professor at Chalmers.
Alice Oh
Alice Oh is a KAIST ICT Endowed Professor of Computing at KAIST and leads the Subcommittee on Global Collaboration within the Presidential Council on Korean National AI Strategy.
Nobel Prize laureate
Brian P. Schmidt
Brian P. Schmidt received the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics for discovering the accelerating expansion of the Universe.
Hanna Stjärne
Hanna Stjärne, Executive Director of the Nobel Foundation since 2025, is a prominent Swedish journalist and media executive. She has led Sveriges Radio, Upsala Nya Tidning, and SVT, focusing on digitalisation, Swedish content, and modernising public service.
Adam Smith
Adam Smith is chief scientific officer for Nobel Prize Outreach. His background is in scientific research and science publishing.
