Prashun Gorai
Assistant Professor at National Renewable Energy Laboratory
City of Troy, New York, United States
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Top SchoolPrashun Gorai is an assistant professor and materials scientist with 11 years of experience leveraging first-principles methods and machine learning to design functional materials for energy conversion, storage, microelectronics, and environmental sustainability. He maintains joint research ties with the National Renewable Energy Laboratory and has progressed from postdoctoral roles to research faculty and now a tenure-track position at Rensselaer, reflecting a strong track record of interdisciplinary collaboration and applied computational discovery. As an editor for Materials Science in Semiconductor Processing, he helps shape the field’s research agenda while continuing hands-on modeling and data-driven materials design. Trained with a PhD in Chemical Engineering from UIUC and earlier degrees from IIT Madras, he blends deep theoretical expertise with practical deployment of computational tools. Notably, his work emphasizes not just prediction but actionable materials recommendations for real-world energy and electronics challenges.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Indian Institute of Technology MadrasDoctor of Philosophy (PhD), Chemical Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Chemical Engineering at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Github Skills (8)
energy6
graph4
journal4
chainer4
graph-neural-network4
deep-learning3
neural-network2
python2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
prashungorai/papers
Oct 2020 - Jul 2023
Sharing scripts and files related to journal publications
Contributions:2 PRs, 23 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 8 months
journalpythonsharingpublications
prashungorai/combined-gnn
Sep 2021 - Jan 2022
Graph neural network for predicting energy of known and hypothetical crystal structures
Contributions:1 release, 3 commits, 2 pushes in 4 months
crystaldeep-learningneural-graphgraph-neural-networkneural-networks
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