Ariel Fernández Stigliano (also styled as Ariel Fernández) is a physicist and mathematician. He obtained his Ph.D. degree from Yale University and held the Karl F. Hasselmann Endowed Chair Professorship in Engineering at Rice University. He was also Adjunct Professor of Computer Science at the University of Chicago. To date, he has published over 500 scientific papers and has authored 11 books on biophysics, artificial intelligence and mathematical physics. Additionally, he holds several patents on technological innovation. He is a senior member of the National Research Council of Argentina (CONICET), CEO of the Daruma Institute for Applied Intelligence and CSO at the Ariel Fernandez AI Lab. Assisted by an AI copilot provided with novel semantic maps, his current research efforts are geared at the unification of gravity and the dark sector based on a fine-structure topological model of space-time.