February 2025 – Dr. Viviana Palacio Betancur win a prestigious Beckman Institute Postdoctoral Fellowship. Congrats Viviana!
January 2025 – Dr. Viviana Palacio Betancur joins us as a postdoctoral researcher from the Ph.D program in Molecular Engineering at the University of Chicago.
December 2024 – Zylle Constantino joins the group as an undergraduate researcher!
October 2024 – Eliza Asani, Jingdan Chen, and Matthew Too join the group as Chemistry Ph.D students! Eliza comes to us from The University of Alabama-Huntsville, Jingdan from Wuhan University, and Matthew from SUNY – Brockport (as a IDF/Springborn Fellow!). Isaac Christensen joins the group as an undergraduate researcher!
September 2024 – Archana’s talk at the ChBE Graduate Student Symposium wins 1st prize!
October 2024 – Group corn maze at Hardy’s Reindeer Ranch followed by a visit to Riggs!
August 2024 – Archana speaks on a panel at GEICS conference and receives the GEICS Leadership Award from SCS!
July 2024 – Chun-I Wang leaves the group to take up a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor position at CUNY Lehman College. Zheng Yu leaves the group for a prestigious CSI Postdoctoral fellowship at Princeton University. Congratulations Chun-I and Zheng!
June 2024 – Group Canoe Trip!
June 2024 – The group travels to the Midwest Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics conference at the University of Notre Dame! Archana gives a talk. Shruti, Charlie, and Seonghwan give posters. A chicken is successfully coarse-grained.
June 2024 – Dr. Vishnu Raghuraman and Dr. Katie Kidder joins the group as postdoctoral researchers. Vishnu comes to us with a Ph.D in Condensed Matter Physics with Michael Widom at Carnegie Mellon University, and Katie with a Ph.D in Chemistry with Will Noid at Pennsylvania State University.
June 2024 – Anna wins the Dr. Sandra Murawski Award for Teaching Excellence. Congratulations, Anna!
May 2024 – Archana and Shruti participate in outreach with SEBA!
May 2024 – Aidan is awarded the prestigious Astronaut Scholarship!
April 2024 – Seonghwan, Shruti, Jason, and Zheng take home the Ashby Prize in Computational Science, sponsored by the Center for Artificial Intelligence Innovation at NCSA!
April 2024 – Jason wins a prestigious NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program award. Congratulations Jason!
March 2024 – Archana presents her research at APS!
October 2023 – David wins the department’s Thro R. Rubin Fellowship!
October 2023 – Anna DeBernardo, Huihang Qiu, and Jason Wu join the group as Chemistry Ph.D students! Anna comes to us from Case Western Reserve University, Huihang from the University of Tokyo, and Jason from Boston College. Welcome!
August 2023 – Seonghwan wins the Big Data Award for his presentation at ACS in the Division of Polymer Chemistry. Congratulations Seonghwan!
May 2023 – David collaborates with the Diao group to develop an AI-Driven fruit juice-based solar cell outreach activity in collaboration with the Well Experience!
May 2023 – Aidan Lindsay and Sofia Sivilotti join the group as undergraduate researchers funded by the prestigious Remec and Morisato Scholarship in Chemical Data Science!
May 2023 – Andrew Qin heads to the Ph.D program at the Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering at the University of Chicago. Good luck Andrew!
April 2023 – Andriy Bilobokky joins the group as an undergraduate researcher.
October 2023 – Shruti Iyer joins the group as a Chemistry Ph.D student! Shruti comes to us from BITS – Pilani.
October 2022 – Seonghwan passes his qualifying exam!
June 2022 – Archana gives an invited talk at ACS CERM!
June 2022 – The group travels to the Midwest Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics Conference at Purdue University. David and Seonghwan give oral presentations, Chun-I takes home a poster prize, and Charlie, Phillip, and Archana give posters!
October 2022 – David wins the department’s Dr. Harold R. Snyder Fellowship! Congratulations David!
September 2022 – Dr. Zheng Yu joins the group as a postdoctoral researcher from the MSE Ph.D Program at the University of Wisconin, Madison, where he worked with Bu Wang. Welcome Zheng!
August 2022 – Archana passes her qualifying exam and David passes his prelim exam! David presents his research at the ACS meeting in Chicago!
July 2022 – Group Canoe Trip!
April 2022 – Seonghwan is part of a team that wins third place in the Ashby Prize for Computational Science competition.
January 2022 – Andrew Qin joins the group as an undergraduate researcher!
January 2022 – Seonghwan is part of a team that receives 1st prize in the AI and Innovate Computing for Molecular Dynamics Challenge, organized by Argonne, NCSA, and NVIDIA.
October 2021 – Group trip to Curtis Orchard!
October 2021 – David wins the department’s Minn Fellowship! Congratulations David!
October 2021 – Seonhwan Kim, Phillip Sin, and Archana Verma join the group as Ph.D students. Seonghwan comes to us as a MSE Ph.D student from the Seoul National University, and Phillip as a MSE Ph.D student from the Carnegie Mellon University, and Archana as a ChBE Ph.D student from Stanford University.
September 2021 – Dr. Chun-I Wang joins the group as a postdoctoral researcher from the Academia Sinica. Welcome Chun-I!.
August 2021 – The first group Canoe Trip!
May 2021 – David wins the SCS Graduate Teaching Award! Congratulations David!
October 2020 – Charlie Maier and David Friday join the group as the first two Ph.D students! Charlie comes to us as a Physics Ph.D student from the University of Virginia, and David as a Chemistry Ph.D student from the U.S. Air Force.