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Bio: Connor W. Coley is the Class of 1957 Career Development Professor and an Assistant Professor at MIT in the Department of Chemical Engineering and the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. He received his B.S. and Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from Caltech and MIT, respectively, and did his postdoctoral training at the Broad Institute. His research group at MIT works at the interface of chemistry and data science to develop models that understand how molecules behave, interact, and react and use that knowledge to engineer new ones, with an emphasis on therapeutic discovery. Connor is a recipient of C&EN’s “Talented Twelve” award, Forbes Magazine’s “30 Under 30” for Healthcare, Technology Review’s 35 Innovators Under 35, the NSF CAREER award, the ACS COMP OpenEye Outstanding Junior Faculty Award, the Bayer Early Excellence in Science Award, the 3M NTFA, and was named a Schmidt AI2050 Early Career Fellow and a 2023 Samsung AI Researcher of the Year.
Postdoctoral Associates & Fellows and Research Scientists
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Joonyoung Joung
Postdoctoral Associate
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Qianxiang Ai
Research Scientist
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Runzhong Wang
Postdoctoral Associate
Graduate Students
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Alex Stoneman
PhD Student
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Anji Zhang
PhD Student
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Herry (Tianyi) Jin
PhD Student
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Joules Provenzano
PhD Student
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Keir Adams
PhD Student
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Kento Abeywardane
PhD Student
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Kevin Yu
SM Student
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Mingrou Xie
PhD Student
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Mrunali Manjrekar
PhD Student
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Priyanka Raghavan
PhD Student
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Wenhao Gao
PhD Student
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Xiaoqi Sun
PhD Student
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Zhengkai Tu
PhD Student
Software Developers
- Sourabh Choure (Front-End Focus)
- Mun Hong Fong (Back-End Focus)
- Huiqian Lin (DevOps & Project Management Focus)
Undergraduate and Postgraduate Researchers
- Ne Dassanayake, MIT
- Ghazal Mirzazadeh, Georgia Tech
- Giselle Brown, UCLA
- Montgomery Bohde, Texas A&M
- Jonathan Huang, MIT
- Alexandra Volkova, MIT
- Tony (Juncheng) Lu, Carnegie Mellon
- Ray Wang, MIT
- Ron Shprints, MIT
- Vlad Cherdantsev, MIT
- Collin Lung, MIT
- Alec Zhu, MIT
Lab Alumni
- Samuel Goldman (PhD 2024, MIT) → TBA
- Guangqi Wu (Postdoctoral Associate) → Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow @ Oxford University
- Fanwang Meng (Postdoctoral Associate) → Banting Fellow @ Queens University
- John Bradshaw (Postdoctoral Associate) → TBA
- Natasha Faurschou (Visiting PhD Student, University of Copenhagen) → PhD Student @ University of Copenhagen
- David Graff (PhD 2023, MIT) → ML Scientist @ Atomwise
- Christian Ulmer (MS 2023, KTH) → Software Engineer @ Scandens
- Rocío Mercado (Postdoctoral Associate) → Assistant Professor @ Chalmers (group page)
- Thijs Stuyver (Postdoctoral Associate) → Assistant Professor @ Université PSL
- Nicholas Casetti (Postgraduate Researcher) → PhD Student @ MIT
- Rebecca Neeser (MS 2022, ETH Zurich) → Intern @ VantAI → PhD student @ EPFL
- Matteo Aldeghi (Research Scientist) → Senior Research Scientist @ Google Research → Director of Machine Learning Research @ Bayer
- Aparajita Dasgupta (Postdoctoral Associate) → Senior Scientist, Process Development @ Pfizer
- Lucas Abounader (UG 2024, Caltech) → Fulbright Fellow @ University of Padova
- Pragnay Nevatia (UG 2024, UC Berkeley) → PhD Student @ MIT
- Anjolaoluwa Fayemi (UG 2026, MIT)
- Sabrina Cai (UG 2024, MIT)
- Jiayi Xin, (UG 2024, HKU/Wellesley) → PhD Student @ UPenn
- Saul A. Vega Sauceda, (UG 2024, MIT)
- Janet Li, (UG 2023, Harvard) → Software Engineer Intern @ Microsoft
- Divya Nori, (UG 2025, MIT) → Intern @ D.E. Shaw Research
- Chanwoo Yoon, (UG 2025, MIT)
- Katherine Lim (UG 2023, MIT)
- Jacob Yasonik (UG 2024, MIT) → Intern @ Google Brain → Machine Learning Engineer @ Osmo
- Min Htoo Lin (UG 2021, Nanyang Technological University) → Deep Learning Algorithm Engineer @ ADVANCE.AI → AI Engineer @ Talo Labs
- Tyra Jones (UG 2021, Spelman College & UG 2023, Georgia Tech)
- Jackson Burns (UG 2022, University of Delaware) → PhD Student @ MIT