Kevin Braza
Chemist · AI Safety Scientist · Educator
Reinforce Labs · UC Davis PhD (incoming) · Private Academic Mentor
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
CBRN AI Safety & Misuse Prevention Scientist
Handshake AI
Senior STEM Specialist Reviewer
xAI
AI Tutor, Human Data Team
OpenAI
AI Trainer, Subject Matter Expert
Villanova Preparatory School
Faculty, Mathematics & CS
Amgen
Manufacturing Process Technician
Schoolhouse.world
Founding Sr. Tutor & Community Watch
Education
PhD Chemical Engineering
UC Davis
MBA, Software Engineering
Quantic
Teaching Credential, Mathematics
LMU
Certificate, Workforce Dev.
Harvard Business School
B.S. Chemistry
UC Santa Barbara
Summer Intensive, Chemistry
Stanford University
Year in Review
2026
Joined Reinforce Labs as a CBRN AI Safety & Misuse Prevention Scientist. Started the Chemical Engineering PhD at UC Davis.
“What they taught you or how they shaped this moment.”
2025
Finished the Quantic MBA. Continued evaluating scientific reasoning at xAI while preparing PhD applications.
2025
Started at xAI on the Human Data Team, stress-testing Grok's scientific reasoning and adversarial robustness.
“What they taught you or how they shaped this moment.”
2024
Wrapped up at Villanova after two years. Left behind a robotics program and a cohort of students who went deep into competition science.
2024
Completed AI Trainer contract at OpenAI, writing and evaluating STEM problems for model training.
“What they taught you or how they shaped this moment.”
2022
Joined Villanova Prep as faculty — mathematics and CS. First time standing in front of 400+ students as the person responsible for the room.
“What they taught you or how they shaped this moment.”
2022
Manufacturing process technician at Amgen in Thousand Oaks. First time seeing pharmaceutical-scale chemistry in action.
2020
Became the #1 tutor on Schoolhouse.world, racking up 250+ sessions. Realized teaching was something I actually wanted to do, not just something I was good at.
“What they taught you or how they shaped this moment.”
2020
Graduated from UC Santa Barbara with a B.S. in Chemistry. Pandemic graduation — no ceremony, just a diploma in the mail and a lot of uncertainty.