Rafael Gómez-Bombarelli

Researcher · Founder

Now Co-founder; Chief Scientific Officer, Physical Sciences, Lila Sciences; Associate Professor, Materials Science and Engineering, MIT

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Affiliations

Current

Co-founder; Chief Scientific Officer, Physical Sciences · Lila Sciencesas of 2026-10-07lila.ai ↗
Associate Professor, Materials Science and Engineering · MITas of 2026-10-07dmse.mit.edu ↗

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Founded

Lila SciencesAutonomous labs · 2023 · 4 rounds on record · disclosed $550M · Series B about $2 billion
Background: MIT (Materials Science and Engineering faculty) (as the company's own announcements put it)
Co-founders: Geoffrey von Maltzahn, Noubar Afeyan, Alexandra Sneider, Ben Kompa, Molly Gibson
Backed byBraidwell Collective Global

Interviews

2026-07-16Lila: making the lab the verifier for reinforcement learning · Latent Space

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