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Academic Achievements
- 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.