People

Connor received his B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Caltech and his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering MIT. His research interests are in how data science and laboratory automation can be used to streamline discovery in the chemical sciences.

Aparajita received her PhD in Materials Design and Innovation from the University at Buffalo in June 2020. She is currently interested in using data science and machine learning to optimize the manufacture and processing of biologics.

Sam received his A.B. in Computer Science from Harvard in 2019 and is a PhD student at MIT in Computational and Systems Biology. He is interested in using machine learning methods to develop better models of enzymatic catalysis.

Itai received his B.A. in Chemistry and Chemical Biology from Cornell and is a PhD student at MIT in Biological Engineering, co-advised with Chris Voigt. He is interested in improving computer-aided synthesis planning for pathways that involve enzymatic catalysis.

David completed his B.A. in Chemistry at Princeton and is now working on his Ph.D. in Chemistry at Harvard as a joint student between the Coley group and the Shakhnovich group. His work focuses on using optimization and machine learning to accelerate the discovery of drug-like molecules.

Zhengkai received his B.ASc. in Chemical Engineering from Waterloo and is a master student at MIT in Computational Science and Engineering. He previously worked on deep learning applications in NLP and is currently interested in using machine learning for reaction prediction and retrosynthesis.

Nathan is an undergrad student in Computer Science and Mathematics at MIT. He is interested in application software, web development, and data science.

Katherine is an undergrad student studying Computer Science and Molecular Biology at MIT. She is currently interested in data science and the development of therapeutics.

Min Htoo is a Chemistry undergrad (class of 2021) from NTU, Singapore. Originally passionate about synthetic organic chemistry, he has fallen in love with machine learning and firmly believes in its potential to uplift and accelerate synthetic chemistry. Outside research, he plays the Sheng in the Chinese Orchestra, participates in datathons and watches Chess.