Zachary Ulissi
Senior Research Scientist Manager, Fundamental AI Research at Meta
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
🤩
Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolZachary Ulissi is a senior research scientist manager at Meta leading fundamental AI research that accelerates quantum chemistry and materials discovery for energy-relevant applications. With a decade of experience bridging academia and industry, he draws on a PhD from MIT and postdoctoral work at Stanford to apply graph convolutional models, active learning, and high-throughput computing to catalysis, renewable energy, and materials design. He founded and led a CMU research group that translated statistical ML methods into practical computational chemistry tools, and now drives open-science efforts through the FAIR Chemistry codebase. Based in San Francisco, he combines deep domain expertise in chemical engineering and applied math with hands-on systems and software development to push reproducible, scalable discovery workflows. An understated strength is his ability to shepherd projects from theory and simulation to broadly usable code and community resources.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Chemical Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Chemical Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyM.A.St., Applied Mathematics, M.A.St., Applied Mathematics at University of CambridgeBS/BE, Chemical Engineering, Physics, BS/BE, Chemical Engineering, Physics at University of Delaware
English
Github Skills (77)
chemistry9
energy9
notebook9
computational-chemistry9
jupyter9
materials-informatics9
pipeline8
parallelization8
kubeflow8
minikube8
machine-learning8
google-kubernetes-engine8
binding8
kedro7
pandas7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
zulissi/zulissi.github.io
Dec 2022 - Jan 2025
A beautiful, simple, clean, and responsive Jekyll theme for academics
Contributions:20 PRs, 93 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 1 month
responsive-jekyll-themeacademicscleanjekylljekyll-theme
ulissigroup/math-methods-chemical-engineering
May 2020 - Oct 2022
Contributions:28 commits, 18 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 5 months
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.