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Atif defends PhD dissertation, becomes 1st PhD of the group

8 May 2018 | by

Mohammad Atif Faiz Afzal gave his PhD dissertation defense titled “From Virtual High-Throughput Screening and Machine Learning to the Discovery and Rational Design of Polymers for Optical Applications” today, has thus completed all his degree requirements, and is now the very first PhD coming out of the group!!! Congrats, Atif! Awesome job – we are very proud of you! Atif will stay on with the group for a few more weeks until he starts his new position as a postdoc with Schrodinger Inc in Portland (OR).
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Johannes wins 2018 Meyerson Award

27 March 2018 | by

Johannes was awarded the 2018 President Emeritus and Mrs. Meyerson Award for Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching and Mentoring today. The Meyerson Award was established to recognize exceptional teaching and mentoring at UB, and it the highest university award given specifically for undergraduate mentoring. Only one member of the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering has received this award before and awards to junior faculty are very rare.
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Johannes wins 2018 NSF CAREER Award

8 February 2018 | by

Johannes was today awarded the 2018 NSF CAREER Award for his project titled CAREER: Building an Advanced Cyberinfrastructure for the Data-Driven Design of Chemical Systems and the Exploration of Chemical Space (Award #1751161). The award is made by the Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure (OAC) within the NSF Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering and funded at a level of $560k. The Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) is NSF’s most prestigious award in support of early-career faculty.
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