Ritesh Kumar

Ritesh Kumar joined UChicago as a postdoctoral fellow at the Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering under Prof. Chibueze Amanchukwu in 2022. Kumar received a doctoral degree (Ph.D.) in materials science from Indian Institute of Science, India in 2022, with their dissertation formulating robust strategies for designing efficient materials using quantum chemistry-based methods and ML algorithms. Kumar’s research interests span wide areas of materials informatics aimed at developing novel materials, at the intersection of physics, chemistry, materials science, computational modeling, data science, and cheminformatics. Kumar also hold a M.S. in Chemical Sciences from the Indian Institute of Science (2017) and a B.Sc. in Chemistry (Honors) from the University of Delhi, India (2015).