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

Reinforce Labs
Reinforce Labs · CBRN AI Safety & Misuse Prevention Scientist
2026 —
Handshake AI
Handshake AI · Senior STEM Specialist Reviewer
2025 —
xAI
xAI · AI Tutor, Human Data Team
2024 – 2025
OpenAI
OpenAI · AI Trainer, Subject Matter Expert
2024
Villanova Preparatory School
Villanova Preparatory School · Faculty, Mathematics & Computer Science
2022 – 2024
Amgen
Amgen · Manufacturing Process Technician
2022
Schoolhouse.world
Schoolhouse.world · Founding Sr. Tutor & Community Watch Manager
2020 – 2021
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Education

UC Davis

PhD Chemical Engineering

UC Davis · 2026 —

Quantic

MBA, Software Engineering

Quantic · 2024 – 2025

LMU

Teaching Credential, Mathematics

LMU · 2023 – 2024

Harvard Business School

Certificate, Workforce Dev.

Harvard Business School · 2022

UC Santa Barbara

B.S. Chemistry

UC Santa Barbara · 2016 – 2020

Stanford University

Summer Intensive, Chemistry

Stanford University · Jun – Aug 2015

Domains

CBRN RiskAI SafetyAdversarial EvaluationComputational MaterialsCompetition PrepCurriculum DesignEd-TechProduct Engineering

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