Keith Brown

Keith A. Brown is an associate professor of mechanical engineering, materials science and engineering, and physics at Boston University. He earned a BS degree in physics from MIT and a PhD degree in applied physics from Harvard University. He was an International Institute for Nanotechnology postdoctoral fellow at Northwestern University. The KABlab studies polymers and smart fluids to determine how useful properties emerge from the interplay between composition, processing, and hierarchical structure. A considerable focus is developing approaches that increase the pace of experimental materials research using autonomous experimentation, miniaturization, parallelization, and machine learning. He can be reached by email at brownka@bu.edu.