After being a member of the group since December 2017, Krishnendu had his last day in Buffalo today! Krishnendu defended his MSc thesis in May and has been wrapping up his project over the past few weeks. Tomorrow, he will head out to South Bend, IN, for the next chapter of his career, i.e., to start his PhD studies at the University of Notre Dame. During his graduate studies, Krishnendu has been working on the modeling of Li-ion adsorption on small organic molecules of interest as potential constituents of Li-ion battery anode materials. His project emerged in the context of
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Today was a bitter-sweet day: After being a member of the group since December 2017, Janhavi had her last day in Buffalo! Janhavi defended her MSc project in May and wrapped up her project over the past few weeks. Tomorrow, she will head out to Delaware for the next chapter of her career, i.e., to start work as a Process Engineer at Kellogg Brown & Root. During her graduate studies, Janhavi has been working on our ChemLG molecular library generator code. Specifically, she has added a graphical user interface as well as a test that gauges the synthetic viability of
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Mojtaba Haghighatlari gave his PhD dissertation defense titled “Making Machine Learning Work in Chemistry: Methodological Innovation, Software Development, and Application Studies” today, has thus completed all his degree requirements, and is now the 2nd PhD coming out of the group. Congrats, Mojtaba! Excellent job – we are very proud of you! Mojtaba will stay on with the group for a little while until he is moving to UC Berkeley to become a postdoc in the group of Teresa Head-Gordon.
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Janhavi Dudwadkar gave her MSc project defense titled “Virtual Molecular Library Generation via a Graphical User Interface” today, has thus completed all his degree requirements, and is now the 10th MSc coming out of the group. Congrats, Janhavi! Excellent presentation – we are all very proud of you! Janhavi will stay with the group until July to tie up a few loose end on her project and hand it over to the next generation of students, before she heads out to Delaware to become a Process Engineer in the Industry.
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Krishnendu Mukherjee gave his MSc thesis defense titled “Computational Modeling of Carboxylic-Based Organic Molecules for Li-Ion Battery Anode Materials” today, has thus completed all his degree requirements, and is now the 9th MSc coming out of the group. Congrats, Krishnendu! Krishnendu will stay with the group over the summer to write up a paper about his MSc research, before he heads out to Indiana to become a PhD student at Notre Dame.
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