Alicia Welden
Open Innovation Manager
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolAlicia Welden is an Open Innovation Manager based in San Francisco with nine years of experience bridging first-principles science and advanced computing to drive R&D translation in quantum chemistry, materials, and AI infrastructure. She combines deep academic pedigree (PhD in theoretical chemistry) and hands-on research at national labs with product-focused roles delivering prototypes, technical account management, and customer success for complex scientific platforms. Alicia has guided technical strategy and client engagements at QC Ware, contributed open-source electronic-structure code at Lawrence Livermore, and recently worked on AI agent behavior, compute tradeoffs, and safety-aligned infrastructure. Known for turning theory into usable tools, she excels at aligning research priorities with commercial needs and building scalable processes and teams. An educator and mentor as well as a scientist, she brings an unusual blend of pedagogical clarity and systems-level engineering to interdisciplinary innovation.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Chemistry, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Chemistry at University of MichiganBachelor of Science - BS, Chemistry, Pure and Applied Mathematics, Bachelor of Science - BS, Chemistry, Pure and Applied Mathematics at Stevens Institute of TechnologyProgramming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
AliciaRaeWelden/AliciaRaeWelden.github.io
Jan 2025 - Jan 2025
Contributions:10 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
AliciaRaeWelden/hello-world
Nov 2016 - Nov 2016
Contributions:2 PRs, 2 pushes, 3 branches in 1 day
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