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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Today was Supriya Agrawal’s last day in the group before she goes off for his new job in the real world, i.e., she is starting at as a Process Engineer for Intel in Portland. Supriya is the 4th MEng student to graduate from the group. Thanks for your hard work and best of luck for your future career, Supriya!
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Today was Shawn Zadeh’s last day in the group before he goes off for his new job in the real world. Shawn is the 3rd MEng student to graduate from the group. Thanks for your hard work and best of luck for your future career, Shawn!
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Yujie Tian passed her thesis defense titled “Inheritance of Molecular Orbital Energies from Monomer Building Blocks to Larger Copolymers in Organic Semiconductors” today and is now the 2nd MSc coming out of the group. Congrats, Yujie! Yujie will stay on with the group until October to finish up some work and plan for her next adventures, so it’s not quite time yet to say goodbye.
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Today was Bill Evangelista’s last day in the group before he goes off for his new job in the real world, i.e., as a Solutions Engineer at Iconics (a company that develops industrial automation software). Earlier in the day, he gave his last group meeting on the most recent revision of ChemHTPS, which he had been spearheading for the past 1.5 years. Bill is the 2nd MEng student to leave the group. Thanks for all your outstanding work, Bill, and all the best for your future endeavors! Godspeed and come by whenever you are in town!
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Ching-Yen Shih passed his thesis defense titled “Systematic Trends in Results from Different Density Functional Theory Models” today and is now the 2nd MSc/MEng coming out of the group. Congrats, Ching-Yen, great job! Ching-Yen will stay on with the group until Mid-October 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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