Santiago Vargas
Graduate Student Researcher
Greater Boston United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSantiago Vargas is a graduate student researcher and computational chemist with eight years of interdisciplinary experience at the intersection of theoretical physics, AI, and materials chemistry. He develops and deploys graph neural networks and AutoML pipelines to predict reaction thermodynamics and accelerate discovery of materials for energy and quantum applications, including work on SEI species for lithium-ion batteries. His background spans academic labs (Harvard, UCLA, Aspuru-Guzik Lab) and national labs (Berkeley Lab) as well as industry experience building clinical-trial ML platforms at Takeda. Comfortable across molecular simulation, high-throughput workflows, and multi-node AI for imaging, he blends fundamental science with practical engineering to make models transferable and scalable. Based in Greater Boston and recognized as a Hoffman Postdoc Fellow at LBL, he brings a rare mix of experimental intuition and ML-first model design to tackle hard problems in quantum chemistry and materials discovery.
8 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Advanced Math and Science AcademyChemistry and Physics, Physical Sciences, Chemistry and Physics, Physical Sciences at Harvard UniversityMasters, Computational Chemistry, Masters, Computational Chemistry at University of California, Los Angeles
Spanish, English
Github Skills (11)
prediction9
message-passing7
graph6
graph-neural-network5
machine-learning5
bond5
neural-network3
surface2
linux2
parallel1
optimization1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
alexandrova-lab-ucla/ML_QTAIM
Jun 2020 - Oct 2021
Contributions:75 commits, 62 pushes in 1 year 4 months
santi921/qtaim_generator
Nov 2022 - Apr 2025
Contributions:4 PRs, 159 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 5 months
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