Awarded $2 million grant in 2025 for AI-driven recyclable packaging materials design; named Regent's Entrepreneur in 2024; elected Fellow of the Materials Research Society in 2020; mentored Rishi Gurnani who won the Georgia Tech Best Ph.D. Thesis Award and Graduate Student Award from the Materials Research Society; polyBERT, created with Chris Kuenneth, featured by Georgia Tech News Center; Polymer Scholar, built by Pranav Shetty, published in npj Computational Materials.
Research Experience
Leads the Ramprasad group at Georgia Institute of Technology; pioneers AI-driven approaches for designing recyclable packaging materials; collaborates with Toyota Research Institute on breakthroughs in fuel cell proton exchange membrane design; developed polyBERT, a chemical language model; co-founded Matmerize, a polymer informatics startup.
Background
Professor in the School of Materials Science and Engineering, with research interests in developing and utilizing computational and machine learning approaches to accelerate materials discovery.
Miscellany
Welcomed five new graduate students - Joe Kern, Janhavi Nistane, Brandon Phan, Shivank Shukla, Aubrey Toland, and a new postdoc - Dr. Kevin Shen, to the group; Brandon Phan received GAANN fellowship; Aubrey Toland awarded NSF GRFP; Pranav Shetty received J.P. Morgan PhD fellowship; Joe Kern was awarded NDSEG Fellowship.