Rishi Gurnani
AI For Chemistry at The Coca-Cola Company
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRishi Gurnani is an AI-for-chemistry leader with eight years of experience applying deep learning and materials science to accelerate R&D pipelines, now filling Coca‑Cola’s flavor and functional-ingredient roadmap. He holds a PhD in Materials Science from Georgia Tech (4.0 GPA) and combines rigorous academic research—award-winning thesis work on polymeric materials—with hands-on roles building AI-driven software and algorithms for the natural sciences. As Director of Software Engineering & Algorithms at Matmerize he translated polymer science into production tools, and his earlier research at UC Berkeley and Berkeley Lab brought ML to electronic-property prediction and molecular dynamics. Comfortable bridging lab and product, he uniquely pairs domain expertise in polymers and energy materials with practical ML/engineering experience to move ideas from simulation to deliverable R&D assets.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Materials Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Materials Science at University of California, BerkeleyDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Materials Science, 4.0 / 4.0, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Materials Science, 4.0 / 4.0 at Georgia Institute of Technology
Spanish, English
Github Skills (40)
materials-informatics9
graph-neural-network9
python8
mathematical-expressions8
mlmodel8
graph-convolutional-networks8
rdkit8
polymer8
multidimensional-arrays8
theano8
data-science7
trading7
geometric-deep-learning7
pytorch7
artificial-intelligence7
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
rishigurnani/polygnn-ls
Sep 2022 - Feb 2025
Fork of polygnn for CS8803 Limited Supervision
Contributions:5 PRs, 79 pushes, 7 branches in 2 years 5 months
supervision
rishigurnani/rishigurnani.github.io
Feb 2025 - Apr 2026
Contributions:1063 pushes, 1 branch, 5 comments in 1 year 1 month
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