Rachel Kurchin
Assistant Research Professor at Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
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Top SchoolRachel Kurchin is an Assistant Research Professor at Carnegie Mellon with eight years of experience advancing materials science and photovoltaics from graduate work at MIT to postdoctoral research and a faculty role. Her work bridges experimental characterization and computational analysis, with a track record of projects at leading labs including NREL and MIT PV Lab and early research spanning cloud image processing to quantum dot spectroscopy. An editor at the Journal of Open Source Software and active on GitHub, she emphasizes open, reproducible research and maintains a regularly updated personal site with publications and CV. Rachel’s background in intensive physics (Yale) and an MPhil from Cambridge underpins a quantitative, interdisciplinary approach that often uncovers practical insights across device-scale experiments and data-driven methods.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Materials Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Materials Science at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyBachelor of Science, Physics (Intensive), 3.9/4.0, magna cum laude, Bachelor of Science, Physics (Intensive), 3.9/4.0, magna cum laude at Yale UniversityMaster of Philosophy (MPhil), Materials Science, Master of Philosophy (MPhil), Materials Science at Cambridge University
Spanish, Hebrew
Github Skills (157)
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Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
BattModels/BattModels.github.io
May 2020 - Sep 2022
Venkat Viswanathan's Electrochemical Energy Group at UM
Contributions:7 reviews, 109 commits, 28 PRs in 2 years 3 months
group-website
Chemellia/AtomicGraphNets.jl
Apr 2020 - Nov 2022
Atomic graph models for molecules and crystals in Julia
Contributions:7 reviews, 302 commits, 87 PRs in 2 years 7 months
moleculescrystalsgraphjuliaatomic
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