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
Joonyoung Joung
Postdoctoral Associate
Qianxiang Ai
Research Scientist
Runzhong Wang
Postdoctoral Associate
Graduate Students
Alex Stoneman
PhD Student
Anji Zhang
PhD Student
Herry (Tianyi) Jin
PhD Student
Joules Provenzano
PhD Student
Keir Adams
PhD Student
Kento Abeywardane
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
- John Bradshaw (Postdoctoral Associate) → Pending
- 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)
- 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