April 2026 · Highlight · 12 AIXC papers accepted at ICLR 2026 Rio across 4 workshops View publications →
Independent AI Research Lab

AI Research at the Frontier.
50+ Papers at NeurIPS, AAAI & Stanford.
Alongside Google DeepMind and OpenAI.

Drug discovery, financial AI, and materials science research — validated at the world's most selective technical conferences. Founded by a former META EVP and AI researcher since the 1990s.

50+ papers
11 at AAAI-26
5 oral (top ~1%)
10 venues
~14 at ICLR 2026
6 platforms

Two engines. Every domain.

Foundational architectures that transfer across disciplines — from molecular dynamics to regulatory compliance.

ACHT Active Causal Hypothesis Testing

Integrates Bayesian Optimization with Generative AI and Causal Discovery to autonomously formulate, test, and refine scientific hypotheses. Reduces wet-lab iteration cycles by orders of magnitude.

Bayesian Optimization Generative AI Causal Discovery Active Learning

VAP Verified Agentic Pipeline

Polyculture agent ensembles with built-in self-falsification and physics-informed surrogates. Every claim is verified against ground truth before propagation, eliminating hallucination cascades.

Polyculture Agents Self-Falsification Physics-Informed Surrogates Formal Verification

One architecture, four frontiers

The same core methodology — validated independently in each domain with peer-reviewed results.

Bio / Pharma

Accelerating drug discovery from target identification through lead optimization. ACHT-driven molecular generation with causal ADMET prediction.

10-50x faster discovery
9 papers published

Financial AI

Echo chamber detection, causal risk propagation, and verified portfolio construction. Separating signal from herding in markets.

Echo chamber detection
5 papers published

Legal Tech

Neuro-symbolic regulation models combining formal logic with LLM reasoning. Automated compliance verification with provenance tracking.

Neuro-symbolic models
3 papers published

Materials Science

Physics-informed surrogates for crystal structure prediction, alloy optimization, and ceramic formulation with DFT-validated accuracy.

100-1,000x acceleration
3+ papers published

Peer-reviewed. Reproducible.

Selected papers from top-tier venues. Full list on the publications page.

AAAI-26 Oral

Active Causal Hypothesis Testing with Bayesian Generative Models for Drug Discovery

ACHT Framework · Oral Presentation (top ~1% acceptance rate)

AAAI-26 Oral

Verified Agentic Pipelines: Self-Falsification in Multi-Agent Scientific Discovery

VAP Architecture · Formal verification for agentic systems

NeurIPS

Physics-Informed Surrogate Models for Materials Property Prediction with Causal Guarantees

Materials Science Track · 100-1,000x acceleration over DFT

Stanford

Echo Chamber Detection in Financial Markets via Causal Information Flow

Stanford AI+Finance Workshop · Causal herding identification

AAAI-26

Neuro-Symbolic Regulatory Compliance: Bridging Formal Logic and LLM Reasoning

AI & Law Track · Automated regulation verification

ELLIS

Domain-Agnostic Self-Falsification: A Universal Framework for Trustworthy AI-Driven Research

ELLIS Workshop on Reliable AI · Cross-domain methodology


AAAI
NeurIPS
Stanford
ELLIS
ICLR
IEEE
IROS
CIKM
ISMB
Google Scholar Top 3

50+ papers at the world's top venues

Our research is validated at the same conferences where Google DeepMind, OpenAI, and leading university labs publish their breakthroughs.

11+
4 workshops, 2 oral presentations
#3 Google Scholar h5
View workshop →
~14
3 workshop tracks, biomedical & drug discovery
#2 Google Scholar h5: 304
Official site →
Selected
AI4D3 Drug Discovery Workshop
#1 Google Scholar h5: 337
Schedule →
1
Agents4Science Workshop
Nobel laureate on board
Stanford site →
6
Applied AI for science, 2 oral
Applied AI conference
3+
FinAI & GMLLM workshops
ACM top-tier venue
Workshop →
1
ML4Molecules Workshop
European ML excellence
Workshop →
3
Alzheimer's & drug discovery focus
ICLR-affiliated
Publishing alongside: Google DeepMind OpenAI Meta FAIR Microsoft Research Stanford MIT CMU
Founded by David Scott Lewis · AI Researcher Since the 1990s · Former META EVP · Stanford Affiliate

Our Team at the World's
Most Selective Venues

From paper to product

Six platforms translating research into real-world impact — each validated against domain benchmarks.

Drug Discovery
ACHT-powered

End-to-end molecular generation with causal ADMET filtering and synthesis planning.

Research Automation
VAP-driven

Multi-agent literature review, hypothesis generation, and experimental design.

AI-Scientist
3,000x acceleration

Autonomous scientific discovery with formal verification and reproducibility guarantees.

Ceramics
Materials AI

Surrogate-accelerated ceramic formulation and firing profile optimization.


Peer-Reviewed.
Production-Deployed.

Every method is validated through peer review before deployment. We believe scientific acceleration requires institutional-grade rigour with the speed and focus of an independent research lab. Founded by a former META EVP. Revenue-generating across drug discovery and financial AI.

Reproducibility First
Open Source
Self-Falsification
Domain-Agnostic

A Cross-Domain AI Research Lab
Ready to Scale

AIXC Research offers rare horizontal AI capabilities spanning drug discovery, financial markets, and materials science — backed by 50+ peer-reviewed papers at NeurIPS, AAAI & ICLR, 6 production-deployed platforms, and a team founded by a former META EVP. We welcome acquisition discussions, technology licensing, and strategic research partnerships.

50+ Peer-Reviewed Papers
6 Production Platforms
4 Research Domains
Former META EVP
Revenue Generating
Contact Corp Dev Team

Acquisition inquiries · Technology licensing · Joint research · Strategic investment

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