brandon krull

hi@brandonkrull.com

what i’m doing now

founder/ceo oct 2024 - present alpha deal, remote

founding member apr 2024 - present worldquant foundry, new york, ny

what i’ve learned from

ph.d., m.s. theoretical chemistry, uc irvine, 2015, 2012
b.s., chemistry, biotechnology, cal poly pomona, 2010

head of data and engineering may 2022 - apr 2024
bags, new york, ny

investment partner, tech lead june 2020 - present
angellist quant fund, san francisco

lead data science engineer oct 2019 - jan 2022
angellist venture , san francisco, ca

senior software and data engineer oct 2018 - oct 2019
noodle.ai, san francisco, ca

co-founder, operations, and full stack engineer 2016 - 2020
season search, san francisco, ca

data engineering fellow july 2018 - sept 2018
insight data science, palo alto, ca

computational sciences postdoctoral fellow jan 2017 - july 2018
lawrence berkeley national lab, berkeley, ca

graduate student researcher 2010 - 2015
uc irvine dept of chemistry, berkeley, ca

teaching, mentoring, outreach

mentor for high school students @ kennedy high school (2017-2019)

organizer for the march for science san francisco (2017)

science fair judge @ st. joachim school (2016)

skype interviews with local middle schools (2014-2016)

mentor for undergraduates: matriculations into cal, columbia, uc irvine (2011-2015)

experimental demo lead for “laboratory experiments and activities in the physical sciences” (leaps) (2013)

head teaching assistant for all general chemistry labs (2012)

journal articles

Parallel-In-Time Magnus Integrators
BT Krull and ML Minion
SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing 41 (5), A2999 2019 doi

Fitting a round peg into a round hole: Asymptotically correcting the generalized gradient approximation for correlation
A Cancio, GP Chen, BT Krull, K Burke
The Journal of Chemical Physics 149 (8), 0841163 2018 doi

Brominated luciferins are versatile bioluminescent probes
RC Steinhardt, CM Rathbun, BT Krull, JM Yu, Y Yang, BD Nguyen,
ChemBioChem 18 (1), 96-100 17 2017 doi

Accelerating molecular property calculations with nonorthonormal Krylov space methods
F Furche, BT Krull, BD Nguyen, J Kwon
The Journal of Chemical Physics 144 (17), 174105 16 2016 doi

Structural, Spectroscopic, and Theoretical Comparison of Traditional vs Recently Discovered Ln2+ Ions in the [K(2.2.2-cryptand)][(C5H4SiMe3)3Ln] Complexes: The Variable Nature of Dy2+ and Nd2+
ME Fieser, MR MacDonald, BT Krull, JE Bates, JW Ziller, F Furche,
Journal of the American Chemical Society 137 (1), 369-382 100 2014 doi

Metal effects on ligand non-innocence in Group 5 complexes of the redox-active [ONO] pincer ligand
S Hananouchi, BT Krull, JW Ziller, F Furche, AF Heyduk
Dalton Transactions 43 (48), 17991-18000 26 2014 doi

Accelerated growth of dendrimers via thiol− ene and esterification reactions
MI Montanez, LM Campos, P Antoni, Y Hed, MV Walter, BT Krull, A Khan,
Macromolecules 43 (14), 6004-6013 2010 doi