Gabe Gomes

Assistant Professor, Chemical Engineering, Chemistry

Bio

Gabe leads the Gomes Group at 온라인바카라, where he joined as an assistant professor in the departments of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering in January 2022. He holds affiliations with 바카라 온라인 추천’s Machine Learning Department, the Wilton E. Scott Institute for Energy Innovation, and the 바카라 온라인 추천 Cloud Lab. Gabe’s the co-founder of e^νals, a consultancy firm for scientific evaluations of foundation models. He also serves as an ad-hoc AI for Science advisor to government agencies, non-profit organizations, and companies, including the UK AI Safety Institute and the Office of Science and Technology Policy at the White House (2023–2024).

Gabe hails from Brazil, where he received his BSc in Chemistry with Technological Attributes from Federal University of Rio de Janeiro in 2013, with an academic exchange year at the University of Lisbon, Portugal. He earned his PhD in 2018 from Florida State University, under the guidance of Professor Igor Alabugin, where he also was awarded a LASER Fellowship in 2014 and a 2016 IBM PhD Scholarship. At FSU, Gabe's research was centered on the relationship between molecular structure and reactivity, focusing on the development and applications of stereoelectronic effects. His PhD work earned him the FSU's Graduate Student Research and Creativity Award, the ACS COMP Chemical Computing Group Excellence Award, and the selection for the CAS SciFinder Future Leaders Program. In 2019, Gabe joined the University of Toronto and Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Matter Lab, led by Professor Alán Aspuru-Guzik. In 2020, Gabe was awarded the prestigious NSERC Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship with the project “Designing Catalysts with Artificial Intelligence.”

Gabe's vision has been recognized by Chemical & Engineering News in his selection as one of 2022's Talented 12 in what he calls "transformative digital molecular design"; in 2024, he was selected as a Scialog Fellow for Automating Chemical Laboratories, a program organized by the Research Corporation for Science Advancement.

The Gomes Group aims to merge state-of-the-art machine learning, computational chemistry, and automation for reaction discovery and optimization. The group is pioneering the integration of foundation models into chemical sciences and engineering via the development of intelligent agents that can autonomously design, plan, and execute sophisticated experiments on automated and cloud labs. Their cross-disciplinary pursuits extend into fields such as robotics and biomaterials, ultimately shaping conversational interfaces that democratize access to advanced scientific tools. The Gomes group is part of the NSF Centers for Computer-Assisted Synthesis (C-CAS), Chemoenzymatic Synthesis (C-CES), and Accelerated Photocatalysis (CAPs), as well as the Catalysis Innovation Consortium (CIC).