Robert Lewis completed the last of his degree requirements today, i.e., his milestone certification, which makes him the 6th MEng student to graduate from the group. Congrats, Robert! Robert will continue to help out for a bit longer while he is hunting for a job.
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Nitin Murthy gave his MSc thesis defense titled “Synthetic Accessibility Scoring and its Potential Applications in Chemical Library Generation” today, has thus completed all his degree requirements, and is now the 19th MSc/MEng coming out of the group. Congrats, Nitin! Excellent presentation – we are all very proud of you! Nitin will stay with the group as a PhD student. After his MSc time in the group was mostly virtual, he’ll hopefully get more face-time during his PhD.
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Dhairya Nilesh Chheda gave his MSc thesis defense titled “Machine Learning Classifiers for the Performance Prediction of High Refractive Index Polyimides” today, has thus completed all his degree requirements, and is now the 13th MSc coming out of the group. Congrats, Dhairya! Dhairya will stay on with the group for a little while he is planning and fleshing out his next career move, so it’s not quite time to say goodbye, yet.
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Yudhajit Pal gave his PhD dissertation defense titled “Improved Energy Conversion Materials from Combined Data-Driven and Computational Screenings” today, has thus completed all his degree requirements, and is now the 3rd PhD coming out of the group. Congrats, Yudhajit! Well done! Yudhajit will stay on with the group for a few more weeks until he is moving to UW Madison to become a postdoc in the group of JR Schmidt.
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Aatish Pradhan gave his MSc thesis defense titled “Tailor-Made Materials: Inverse Engineering Compounds Using Feature Correlation” today, has thus completed all his degree requirements, and is now the 12th MSc coming out of the group. Congrats, Aatish – good job! Aatish will stay on with the group to pursue his PhD.
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Krutika Patidar gave her MSc thesis defense titled “Predicting Spin-Symmetry Breaking in Organic Photovoltaic Compounds Using Data Mining” today, has thus completed all her degree requirements, and is now the 11th MSc coming out of the group. Congrats, Krutika! Krutika will stay with the group over the summer to wrap up some of her work, before she becomes a PhD student in the group of Ashlee Ford Versypt.
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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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