Ekin Dogus Cubuk
Researcher · Founder
Now Founder, Periodic Labs
Latest on AI4S.fyiInterview · Oct 8Periodic Labs takes its tools to chipmakers first; superconductors wait on synthesis and testingAccount confirmed by the editor · Avatar from their X account, taken 2026-09-29
Affiliations
Current
- Founder · Periodic Labs
Also named in the companies' announcements: Google DeepMind, Google Brain
Current roles come from these dated records, not from the bio below. Each links the page it was read from.
About
Ekin Dogus Cubuk is a co-founder of Periodic Labs, which applies AI to materials science. He was a senior research scientist at Google DeepMind working on deep learning for solid-state physics and materials, and investor Felicis describes him as its former chemistry and physics research lead and an author of the GNoME paper. He holds a PhD from Harvard, where he studied disordered solids and battery materials with density functional theory and machine learning, and did postdoctoral research at Stanford.
Read on 2026-09-29; for current roles see Affiliations above. Read at: deep-tech-week.com ↗ · felicis.com ↗
Selected work
- Scaling deep learning for materials discovery ↗
Graph networks trained at scale to predict crystal stability, used to propose new inorganic materials.
Also on this record: Simon Batzner
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Founded
Periodic LabsMaterials and chemistry · 2025 · 2 rounds on record · disclosed $300M · Round (unnamed) at least $500 millionBackground: Google Brain / Google DeepMind (materials and chemistry, GNoME) (as the company's own announcements put it)
Co-founders: Liam Fedus
Interviews
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