Rajat Goel is a Ph.D. candidate at UC Davis studying how materials work and fail using powerful computers. He's like a detective figuring out how tiny hydrogen particles move inside metals.
Before becoming a researcher, Rajat worked at big companies like Shell and helped build scalable software for HSBC and financial startups. This experience allows him to scale and automate his research toward high-throughput simulations that solve real-world problems in safety and other domains.
Rajat is also a computer whiz! He creates and shares free software online, like his ML-based, context-aware spell corrector (https://github.com/R1j1t/contextualSpellCheck), which has more than 230,000+ downloads and has contributed to critical libraries like Pandas and Spacy, among a few.
Rajat is an excellent fit for our research group. He's always looking for new ways to use computers to understand materials and positively impact the world.
- Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar, Chemical Engineering, BTech, 2019