Archives for Milestones

Latest paper is now online

Our latest paper (publication #21) titled “Building and Deploying a Cyberinfrastructure for the Data-Driven Design of Chemical Systems and the Exploration of Chemical Space” is now online at Molecular Simulation, and you can find it here. Congrats to Atif, Mojtaba, Yudhajit, and Johannes!
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Shirish defends MSc project, becomes 8th MSc/MEng of the group

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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Categories: Graduation, Milestones, News, and Team.

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

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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Categories: Graduation, Milestones, News, and Team.

Johannes wins 2018 NSF CAREER Award

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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Categories: Awards, Milestones, and News.

Vigneshwar defends his MSc thesis, becomes 7th MSc/MEng of the group

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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Categories: Graduation, Milestones, News, and Team.