Published over 100 peer-reviewed articles, serves as an associate editor for Nature: npj Computational Materials, and is an editorial board member of Materials Today Communications, PRX Energy, and Machine Learning: Science and Technology journals. Elected as a Fellow of the American Physical Society in the Topical Group of Data Science in 2025.
Research Experience
Served as a staff scientist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). Creator of the widely used JARVIS (Joint Automated Repository for Various Integrated Simulations) infrastructure and developer of AtomGPT.org and ChatGPT Material Explorer, custom AI agents for materials science.
Education
Earned his PhD in Materials Science and Engineering from the University of Florida in 2015.
Background
Research interests include condensed matter physics, density functional theory, force fields, graph neural networks, large-language models, and quantum computing algorithms. His work aims to advance the discovery and design of materials by bridging theory, simulation, and artificial intelligence.
Miscellany
Active member of The Materials Society, American Physical Society, American Chemical Society, and Materials Research Society.