Matthew D.Schwartz

Matthew Schwartz is a professor of physics at Harvard University who works on quantum field theory, particle physics and machine learning. He is a founding member of IAIFI, the NSF Institute for Artificial Intelligence and Fundamental Interactions, and the author of the textbook Quantum Field Theory and the Standard Model (Cambridge University Press, 2014).

His group pioneered the use of deep learning in collider physics, and he now leads efforts to use AI to facilitate and eventually automate scientific discovery. In 2026 he supervised an AI model through a complete theoretical physics calculation without touching a file himself, and wrote about it in “Vibe physics: The AI grad student.”