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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Today was another day of pride, joy, and a good dose of sadness: After being a member of the group since December 2015, Vigneshwar had his last day in Buffalo! Vigneshwar defended his MSc thesis in January 2018, wrapped up his project over the past few months, and then kept volunteering to help out the group. Tomorrow, he will head back to India for the next chapter of his career, i.e., to start work in the chemical engineering industry. During his graduate studies, Vigneshwar has been working on the modeling and discovery of biodegradable polymers and their decay reaction mechanisms.
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Amol Rajendra Mahajan gave his research project presentation titled “Computational Modelling of Liquid Organic Hydrogen Carriers” today, has thus completed all his degree requirements, and is now the 8th MSc coming out of the group. Congrats, Amol! Amol 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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Aditya Sonpal gave his MSc thesis defense titled “Predicting Melting Points of Deep Eutectic Solvents” today, has thus completed all his degree requirements, and is now the 7th MSc coming out of the group. Congrats, Aditya! Aditya will stay on with the group for a PhD, so he will be around for a few more years.
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Po-Han Chen gave his final project presentation titled “Using Concepts from Active Learning and Applicability Domain to Enhance Predictive Modeling” today, has thus completed all his degree requirements, and is now the 6th MSc coming out of the group. Congrats, Po-Han! Good job! Po-Han will stay on with the group 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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Gaurav Vishwakarma gave his MSc thesis defense titled “Machine Learning Model Selection for Predicting Properties of Organic Polymers” today, has thus completed all his degree requirements, and is now the 5th MSc coming out of the group. Congrats, Gaurav! Gaurav will stay on with the group for a PhD, so he will be around for a few more years.
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Today was Chris Bamix’s last day in the group before he goes off for his new job in the real world, i.e., in the US Navy. Chris is the 5th MEng student to graduate from the group. Thanks for your hard work and best of luck for your future career, Chris!
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Shirish Sivaraj gave his MSc project defense titled “ChemBDDB: A Software-Assisted Database Infrastructure for the Exploration of Chemical and Materials Space” today, has thus completed all his degree requirements, and is now the 4th MSc coming out of the group. Congrats, Shirish! Very nice presentation – good job! Shirish will stay with the group for another few weeks to tie up a few loose ends on his project and hand it over to the next generation of students, before he heads out for a job in the industry.
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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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Vigneshwar Kumaran Sudalayandi Rajeswari passed his thesis defense titled “First-Principles Modeling of Polymer Degradation Kinetics and Virtual High-Throughput Screening of Candidates for Biodegradable Polymers” today and is now the 3rd MSc coming out of the group. Congrats, Vigneshwar, good job! Vigneshwar will stay on with the group for at least another few weeks to finish up some work and plan for his next adventures, so it’s not quite time yet to say goodbye.
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