Ekin Dogus Cubuk is an AI and materials-science researcher who co-founded Periodic Labs, a company building AI scientists and autonomous laboratories to accelerate physical scientific discovery. Ekin Dogus Cubuk's Twitter Score is 32 out of 1000 as of September 2026, ranking #29,804 (top 10%) among 486,860 tracked accounts.
Ekin Dogus Cubuk previously worked at Google DeepMind as a Senior Research Scientist, where he led the materials science and chemistry team, and formerly at Google Brain in a similar capacity. During that period, he contributed to the 2023 GNoME materials-discovery project and co-authored a 2023 paper describing an automated laboratory that synthesized 41 novel compounds from recipes suggested by a language model.
Ekin Dogus Cubuk co-founded Periodic Labs, which announced a $300 million Seed round in September 2025 led by Andreessen Horowitz. The company's scientific agenda includes the search for new superconducting materials. Ekin Dogus Cubuk has 9,325 followers as of September 2026 and has published 604 posts. Ekin Dogus Cubuk has been mentioned by 12 accounts a total of 18 times.
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