News

Connor W. Coley set to join MIT Chemical Engineering Faculty in August 2020.

Mark Goldman, a frequent columnist for The Tech, becomes the first group member to have a cartoon published since 2016 (when Connie Gao published “Closer to the truth, further from the data”).

Connor Coley is honored by the department for his talk titled, “ Application of Machine Learning to Organic Synthesis Planning.”

He was selected for, “for innovative advances in predictive combustion chemistry, and the invention and dissemination of algorithms for mechanism construction and reduction.”

The inaugural class of Combustion Institute Fellows also includes Green Group collaborators Ahmed Ghoniem, Stephen Klippenstein, Al Wagner, and Yiguang Ju.

The full list of fellows can be found here.

Green group SuperUROP Isaiah Borne received the national 2017 ACS Student Exchange Award at the NOBCChE conference on November 2 in Minneapolis, in recognition of his work modeling how supercritical water converts heavy oil into transportation fuels. (This work was done in collaboration with Lawrence Lai and his mentor, Dr. Soumya Gudiyella). Only four of these awards are given each year in the USA.

Alon Grinberg Dana and Mark Payne win Best Poster Award at the International Conference on Chemical Kinetics for their poster/demo titled “RMG-Py version 2: New Capabilities & Demonstration.

Connor’s recent publication, on the prediction of chemical reaction products, was highlighted by MIT News. Connor jointly authored the paper with Prof. Green and Prof. Jensen from the Chemical Engineering Department and Prof. Barzilay and Prof. Jaakkola from the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department.