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

Fanwang Meng
Postdoctoral Associate

Guangqi Wu
Postdoctoral Associate

John Bradshaw
Postdoctoral Associate

Joonyoung Joung
Postdoctoral Associate

Qianxiang Ai
Research Scientist

Runzhong Wang
Postdoctoral Associate
Graduate Students

Anji Zhang
PhD Student

Herry (Tianyi) Jin
PhD Student

Joules Provenzano
PhD Student

Keir Adams
PhD Student

Kevin Yu
SM Student

Mingrou Xie
PhD Student

Priyanka Raghavan
PhD Student

Wenhao Gao
PhD Student

Xiaoqi Sun
PhD Student

Zhengkai Tu
PhD Student
Software Developers
Undergraduate and Postgraduate Researchers
- Ron Shprints, MIT Mathematics with Computer Science
- Vlad Cherdantsev
- Collin Lung
- Alec Zhu
Lab Alumni
- 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)
- Pragnay Nevatia (UG 2024, UC Berkeley)
- Anjolaoluwa Fayemi (UG 2026, MIT)
- Sabrina Cai (UG 2024, MIT)
- Jiayi Xin, (UG 2024, HKU/Wellesley)
- Saul A. Vega Sauceda, (UG 2024, MIT)
- Janet Li, (UG 2023, Harvard) → Software Engineer Intern @ Microsoft
- Divya Nori, (UG 2025, MIT)
- Chanwoo Yoon, (UG 2025, MIT)
- Katherine Lim (UG 2023, MIT)
- Jacob Yasonik (UG 2024, MIT) → Intern @ Google Brain → Machine Learning Engineer @ Stealth
- 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