Kevin Braza
B.S. Chemistry from UC Santa Barbara. Incoming Chemical Engineering PhD at UC Davis, focused on computational modeling of materials. MBA from Quantic. Teaching credential in secondary mathematics from LMU.
Two years as faculty at Villanova Preparatory School, a private boarding school in Ojai, California. Mathematics and computer science. 400+ students. Robotics program director. Competition prep for USNCO, IChO, IMO, and Science Olympiad. Before that, pharmaceutical manufacturing at Amgen and #1 tutor on Schoolhouse.world (250+ sessions).
Currently at Reinforce Labs doing CBRN AI safety and misuse prevention. Previously evaluated scientific reasoning in frontier models at xAI and OpenAI.
Selected Positions
Education
PhD Chemical Engineering
UC Davis · 2026 —
MBA, Software Engineering
Quantic · 2024 – 2025
Teaching Credential, Mathematics
LMU · 2023 – 2024
Certificate, Workforce Dev.
Harvard Business School · 2022
B.S. Chemistry
UC Santa Barbara · 2016 – 2020
Summer Intensive, Chemistry
Stanford University · Jun – Aug 2015