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James Braza

EECS PhD student, MIT

  • EECS PhD student, Massachusetts Institute of Technology1

James D. Braza is an AI researcher and an EECS PhD student at MIT, according to Braza's GitHub profile. At FutureHouse, Braza was second author of "Training a Scientific Reasoning Model for Chemistry" (2025), which introduced the ether0 model, and of the Aviary paper (2024) on training language agents, and contributed to the ether0, Aviary and LDP repositories.12345

At a glance

Current role
EECS PhD student
Company
MIT
Sector
University
Education
MIT
Work listed
2
Sources cited
10
Profile reviewed

Research and engineering

Braza's site lists FutureHouse projects including Aviary and LDP (December 2024), on training language agents on challenging scientific tasks, and ether0 (June 2025), on training a scientific reasoning model for chemistry. Braza is second author on both papers, whose ether0 version lists FutureHouse as the affiliation, and contributed code to the Aviary, LDP and ether0 repositories.2534678910

Earlier projects on Braza's site include Configurator (2024), a toolchain for quality assurance across research and production settings. Braza's GitHub profile now lists the role of EECS PhD student at MIT.21

Work and contributions

  • ether0 (24B) Open weights

    Second author of the ether0 paper and a contributor to the open-source ether0 repository, which holds the model's reward functions.37102

  • Aviary and LDP Open-source code

    Second author of the Aviary paper (2024) and a contributor to FutureHouse's Aviary and LDP repositories for language agents.56892

Timeline

  1. Built Configurator, a configured toolchain for research and production settings.2
  2. Co-authored the Aviary paper on training language agents as second author.5
  3. Co-authored the ether0 chemistry reasoning paper as second author.3

Other documented roles

Roles the sources document that are not confirmed as current.

Where they work

  • MIT 26 people in the wiki

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References

10 sources · profile reviewed Oct 22, 2026 · data updated Oct 22, 2026

  1. jamesbraza (James Braza) on GitHubGitHub · Official page · accessed Oct 22, 2026
  2. James Braza — projectsJames Braza · Official page · accessed Oct 22, 2026
  3. Training a Scientific Reasoning Model for Chemistry (arXiv 2506.17238)arXiv · Paper · published Jun 4, 2025 · accessed Oct 22, 2026
  4. Training a Scientific Reasoning Model for Chemistry — full text (authors and affiliation)arXiv · Paper · published Jun 4, 2025 · accessed Oct 22, 2026
  5. Aviary: training language agents on challenging scientific tasks (arXiv 2412.21154)arXiv · Paper · published Dec 30, 2024 · accessed Oct 22, 2026
  6. Future-House/aviary repository (contributors)FutureHouse (GitHub repository) · Repository · accessed Oct 22, 2026
  7. Future-House/ether0 repository (README and contributors)FutureHouse (GitHub repository) · Repository · accessed Oct 22, 2026
  8. Future-House/aviary recent commits feed (commit authors)FutureHouse (GitHub repository) · Repository · accessed Oct 22, 2026
  9. Future-House/ldp recent commits feed (commit authors)FutureHouse (GitHub repository) · Repository · accessed Oct 22, 2026
  10. Future-House/ether0 recent commits feed (commit authors)FutureHouse (GitHub repository) · Repository · accessed Oct 22, 2026