Ekin Dogus Cubuk

Ekin Dogus Cubuk is the co-founder and co-CEO of Periodic Labs, a startup focused on accelerating physics and materials science research using AI. He previously spent approximately eight years as a research scientist at Google DeepMind (Google Brain), where he led a group of 22 people working on machine learning for solid-state physics and materials science. He is known for his research on the GNoME model for discovering new materials and for his work applying large language models to quantum materials discovery. He holds a PhD in applied physics from Harvard University and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Stanford University.