News

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.

Prof. Green was elected as a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science for 2016. Prof. Green was honored for “developing accurate and useful methods for first-principles predictive chemical kinetics, improving understanding of chemical reactions and facilitating the engineering of complicated reacting systems.

Congratulations to group members Connor Coley and Mengjie Liu, for winning this year’s two W.C. Rousseau awards for superior performance at the MIT Chemical Engineering Practice School.

Prof. Green’s research on new approaches to making clean, high-quality fuels from low-quality oil highlighted by MIT’s Energy Initiative.