Summary
Santosh S is a Senior Staff Research Scientist with 11 years applying machine learning to accelerate materials discovery, currently leading research at Toyota Research Institute. He combines high-throughput synthesis, automated characterization, and scalable data engineering to discover over 50 novel materials and publish more than 60 peer-reviewed papers alongside several patents. His work spans catalyst discovery for energy conversion and storage and building complex materials data pipelines that enable rapid experimental iteration. Trained with a PhD in Materials Science and Engineering from Iowa State and a B.Tech from IIT Madras, he uniquely blends deep domain expertise with production ML to turn experimental systems into repeatable discovery platforms. Notably, his research has been covered in mainstream science outlets and demonstrated predictive synthesis of complex materials, highlighting an ability to translate models into experimentally validated breakthroughs.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Indian Institute of Technology Madras
PhD Materials Science and Engineering, PhD Materials Science and Engineering at Iowa State University
English, Telugu, Hindi, Tamil