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Gabriel dos Passos Gomes is a Brazilian chemist and assistant professor of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. He has participated in a number of different publications regarding advances in the science of Chemistry, and has a long career that includes the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Florida State University, and the University of Toronto. Gomes advocates for the use of Artificial intelligence and organic chemistry to develop new chemical reactions programs and to facilitate the study of catalysis.




Early life and education


Gabriel Gomes grew up in the countryside of Magé, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He possessed a strong interest in science and technology from a young age, particularly fascinated by chemistry and chemical engineering. Gomes started his passion for chemistry in 2008 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil as an undergraduate student, where he began working with his professor on computational organic chemistry.
Gomes continued his education in the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, where he obtained his B.Sc. in Chemistry in 2013 under the mentorship of Pierre Mothè Esteves. He spent one year in an academic exchange at University of Lisbon, Portugal with Maria José Lourenço. Then, in 2016 he earned his M.Sc. and in 2018, under the mentorship of Igor V. Alabugin he earned his Ph.D. in organic chemistry from Florida State University.




Career


Gomes is an assistant professor at Carnegie Mellon University, specializing in chemistry and chemical engineering. His research merges machine learning with organic chemistry to innovate in chemical reactions, catalyst, and materials. Before joining Carnegie Mellon University, Gomes was awarded the Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship to continue his research on catalysts and artificial intelligence, while working with Alàn Aspuru-Guzik at the University of Toronto. During his time at Florida State University, his research centered on the relationship between molecular structure and reactivity. He conducted a research in Portugal at the University of Lisbon on reduced graphene oxides. Gomes was named to Chemical & Engineering News' Talented Twelve in 2022, where he discussed his research on merging Artificial Intelligence and chemistry.




Research


Gomes runs his own lab where he focuses on the development of catalyst design. His research aims to train computers with the ability to create catalysts and structures from scratch.
Gomes group developed a new software system called "Coscientist", where for the first time a non-organic intelligent system designed, planned and executed a chemistry experiment. The system uses large language models (LLMs), including OpenAI’s GPT-4 and Anthropic Claude, to execute the full range of the experimental process with a simple, plain language prompt. Coscientist, will be the new searching platform for future experiments using AI and Chemistry.




Awards


Gomes was awarded the Latin American Student Education and Research (LASER) Fellowship in 2014, and in 2016-2017 was awarded with the IBM Ph.D scholarship. In 2018 Gomes received the ACS COMP Chemical computing Group Excellence Award. In 2020, for his work at the University of Toronto Gomes was awarded with the prestigious Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship for his project "Designing Catalyst with Artificial Intelligence".




Selected publications


Gomes, Gabe. "Autonomous chemical research with large language models", Nature 624, 2023, pg. #570-578.
Gomes, Gabe. "A comprehensive discovery platform for organophosphorus ligands for catalysis", Journal of the American Chemical Society, 144, 2022, pg. #1205-1217.
Gomes, Gabe. "Data-driven strategies for accelerated materials design", Accounts of Chemical Research 54, 2021, pg. #849-860.
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