Rampi Ramprasad

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Prof. Ramprasad is presently the Regent’s Entrepreneur, and the Michael E. Tennenbaum Family Chair and Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar in the School of Materials Science & Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. His area of expertise is the development and application of computational and machine learning tools to accelerate materials discovery, as applicable to energy production, storage, and utilization. Prof. Ramprasad received his B. Tech. in Metallurgical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India, an M.S. degree in Materials Science & Engineering at the Washington State University, and a Ph.D. degree also in Materials Science & Engineering at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He is also the co-founder of Matmerize, Inc., a company that offers AI-based software solutions to accelerate polymers and formulations development.

Prof. Ramprasad is a Fellow of the Materials Research Society, a Fellow of the American Physical Society, an elected member of the Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering, and the recipient of the Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship and the Max Planck Society Fellowship for Distinguished Scientists. He has authored or co-authored over 275 peer-reviewed journal articles, 8 book chapters and 8 patents, and has delivered over 300 invited talks at Universities and Conferences worldwide. He is a member of the Editorial Advisory Boards of npj Computational Materials, ACS Materials Letters and Journal of Physical Chemistry A/B/C. He created and chaired the inaugural 2022 Gordon Research Conference on Computational Materials Science and Engineering.