Michael E. Tennenbaum Family Chair Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar in Energy Sustainability
AI-assisted design of functional polymers for a sustainable world
Prof. Ramprasad is presently the Regents’ Entrepreneur, and the Michael E. Tennenbaum Family Chair Professor and Georgia Research Alliance (GRA) Eminent Scholar in the School of Materials Science & Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology (or Georgia Tech). He 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. Prof. Ramprasad’s area of expertise is in the development and application of first principles and data-driven materials computational tools, and more broadly in the utilization of such methods for the design and discovery of new materials.
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 300 peer-reviewed journal articles, 7 book chapters and 8 patents. He has been a Guest Editor for the Journal of Materials Science, is in the Editorial Advisory Board of npj Computational Materials, delivered over 300 invited talks at Universities and Conferences worldwide, and has organized several international symposia. He was the Organizer & Chair of the inaugural Gordon Research Conference in 2022 on Computational Materials Science and Engineering.