News

Recent Green group paper, led by graduate student Lucky, was featured in MIT News! The work describes a machine learning method to quickly generate low-energy conformer ensembles. The paper was also named a spotlight paper at the 2021 NeurIPS conference as one of the top 3% of all submitted papers. Read the paper here.

Congratulations Lucky and team!

Esther’s recent paper detailing the use of condensed graph representations of reactions in deep learning architectures was named one of 5 most popular articles by JCIM! Read her paper here.

Congratulations Esther!

Recent Green group postdoc Florence Vermeire will join the Chemical Engineering faculty of the University of Leuven.

Congratulations Florence!

Recent Green group visitor Gianmaria Pio will join the faculty at the University of Bologna.

Congratulations Gianmaria!

Green group alumnus Michael Harper has joined the Milwaukee Brewers as a senior analyst, fulfilling his dream of making a career in baseball data analytics.

Congratulations Michael!

Three papers from the Green group have been honored as among the most highly cited papers in the International Journal of Chemical Kinetics over the past five years, and are republished in a Special Issue of the journal:

• Temperature- and Pressure-Dependent Kinetics of CH2OO + CH3COCH3 and CH2OO + CH3CHO: Direct Measurements and Theoretical Analysis
• Perspective on Mechanism Development and Structure-Activity Relationships for Gas-Phase Atmospheric Chemistry
• An Extended Group Additivity Method for Polycyclic Thermochemistry Estimation

Congratulations!

Congratulations to Lagnajit “Lucky” Pattanaik, the winner of a Takeda Fellowship which will provide his financial support and tuition for the 2021-2022 academic year.

The work of Awele Uwagwu, a former UROP in the Green Group, was recently highlighted in an MIT News article. He strives to accelerate the adoption solar energy to Nigeria, and has founded a startup developing software toward this aim. Congrats, and all the best for this important project!

A team from MIT, including Michael Forsuelo from the Green group, makes it to the finals of Elon Musk’s competition to find a faster way to dig tunnels. Congrats and best of luck!

Congratulations to recent Green Group alumnus Manish Shetty, who will start as an Assistant Professor at Texas A&M in the Fall.