Alex Wiltschko

Osmo is a company based in Cambridge, MA that was founded by Alex Wiltschko and has been led by him since incorporation. The company fuses machine learning, data science, psychophysics, olfactory neuroscience, electrical engineering, and chemistry to digitize scent. Osmo's work is grounded in digital olfaction research, including two pivotal studies that used graph neural networks to predict the smell of a molecule from its structure and to investigate the biological underpinnings of odor similarity. The company has begun work in the flavor and fragrance market to create a new generation of better, safer, environmentally-friendly aroma molecules. Osmo expects to work in domains such as public health and agriculture on solutions that help humans detect diseases earlier, track pandemics faster, grow more food, catch food spoilage, and ward off insects.