Gabriel Kumar
The University of Chicago
Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering
5640 South Ellis Avenue
Chicago, IL 60637
Phone: (773) 834-7392
Email: gakumar at uchicago.edu
Graduate Student
Education
- B.S. in Physics, University of California Santa Barbara (2025)
Areas of Interest
- First Principles modelling of materials for sustainability
- Method and software development
- Machine learning and the inverse problem in materials science
Experience
- September 2025-Present, Graduate student in the Pritzker school of Molecular Engineering at UChicago
- April 2023- June 2025 Undergraduate Research Assistant for Lars Bildsten at UC Santa Barbara working on astrophysics
- June 2024- September 2024 Undergraduate Research Assistant for Anton Van der Ven at UC Santa Barbara working on computational materials science.
