Kevin Kraef is a third-year JD candidate at Emory University School of Law, where he is enrolled in the Transactional Law Certificate Program and serves as a Fellow in the TI:GER (Technology Innovation: Generating Economic Results) program. He is also co-founder and CEO of Atlas Engineering Software, a deep-tech startup developing GPU-accelerated electromagnetic simulation software. Through TI:GER, he is working to commercialize and license a metrology technology developed at Los Alamos National Laboratory to buyers in Europe and North America. As a CICL Student Fellow, he conducts research on international private legal markets and on regulatory and transactional developments between the United States, Europe, and Asian markets, under the supervision of Professor Dr. Tulibacka.

His academic and professional interests center on cross-border transactional practice, private international law, and the regulation of technology, capital, and energy across jurisdictions, with a particular focus on European financial and energy market regulation. Before law school, Kraef worked as a corporate paralegal at Weil, Gotshal & Manges in New York, supporting attorneys on cross-border M&A, private equity, and capital markets matters. He holds dual bachelor’s degrees in International Relations and Supply Chain Management from Michigan State University and spent a year at the Université Libre de Bruxelles concentrating on European security law and EU economic policy. He works in English, German, French, and Spanish.