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Gwen Wilcox will receive the 2024 Ellen Mandigo award, the highest award for staff in the MIT School of Engineering! The award ceremony will be in the Samberg Center on June 25.

Jonathan Zheng has won a Takeda Fellowshiop for the 2024-2025 academic year.

A paper written by Connor Coley when he was a student in the Jensen and Green groups, and co-authored by many others including former Green group member Pieter Plehiers, will be awarded the 2024 Frontiers of Science Award in Theoretical Computer and Information Sciences this summer, at the International Congress of Basic Science.

Connor W. Coley, Dale A. Thomas III, Justin A. M. Lummiss, Jonathan N. Jaworski, Christopher P. Breen, Victor Schultz, Travis Hart, Joshua S. Fishman, Luke Rogers, Hanyu Gao, Robert W. Hicklin, Pieter P. Plehiers, Joshua Byington, John S. Piotti, William H. Green, A. John Hart, Timothy F. Jamison, & Klavs F. Jensen, “A robotic platform for flow synthesis of organic compounds informed by AI planning”, Science 365(6453), eaax1566 (2019).

Automated reaction kinetics and network exploration (Arkane): A statistical mechanics, thermodynamics, transition state theory, and master equation software by Alon Grinberg Dana et al. was selected as Reader’s Choice paper from the International Journal of Chemical Kinetics.

Temujin Orkhon was awarded the top prize in the ChemE UROP poster contest for their project titled, “Uncertainty Improves Multi-Fidelity Machine Learning,” co-authored by PhD candidate Kevin Greenman, Prof. Bill Green and Prof. Rafael Gomez-Bombarelli.

Jonathan was awarded Honorable Mention in the 2024 SERC Envisioning the Future of Computing Prize contest. His essay discussed the importance & societal impacts of data mining and AI in chemistry.

Sharada Navada, who was an undergraduate researcher in Green group the summer of 2011, has been appointed Associate Professor at NTNU in Trondheim, Norway. Congratulations to Sharada!

2022 Award Announcement

Sayandeep and Kariana’s analysis of a low-greenhouse alternative powertrain for long-haul trucking was published as the cover article in the Energy & Fuels (vol. 37 issue 22)