Jeremy Wertheimer received a BE in Electrical Engineering from Cooper Union, and an SM in Computer Science and a PhD in Artificial Intelligence from MIT. He founded and served as the CEO of ITA Software, which powers the airfare searches for American Airlines, Delta Air Lines, and United Airlines et al. Google acquired ITA Software, and Jeremy served as VP Engineering at Google for 8 years.

Jeremy has co-founded companies in computational antibody design, super-resolution microscopy, synthetic cells, computational protein design, online learning, mental wellness and space.

He is a visiting Scientist at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. He serves on various boards, including MIT Engine and MIT Sandbox. He was a trustee of Cooper Union for 8 years.