News

Changhwan Oh, Husain Adamji, and Xiao Huang graduate

A week of defenses has resulted in three new PhDs from the group!

  • Dr. Changhwan Oh will start as a postdoctoral associate at UCLA in the fall.
  • Dr. Husain Adamji will be starting as an ML engineer at Radical AI.
  • Dr. Xiao Huang will be starting as a consultant at McKinsey & Associates
Jun 26, 2026
Gigi, Roland, Panos, and Heecheol receive Fellowships

Congratulations to Gigi Wang, Roland St. Michel, Panos Papageorgiou, and Heecheol Jang for receiving fellowships supporting their work in the group!

  • Gigi receieved a Samsung fellowship.
  • Roland received a Fraser fellowship.
  • Panos received an Athans fellowship.
  • Heecheol recieved a ChemE MathWorks fellowship.
Jun 26, 2026
Gumyusenge collab in ACS AMI

Congratulations to Shuwen (PD ‘23) and Changhwan (PhD ‘26) on the publication of their collaborative work on conductive polymers with the Gumyusenge Lab in ACS AMI! Read more about it here!

Jun 10, 2026
New (and returning) visitors to the group

Welcome to our newest visitors - Taekgi Lee visiting us from Busan National University, Kimberley Sun from Lawrenceville High school, Sebastian Pujet returning from Wash U for another summer, Joel Pang from Caltech, Ndeye Mbodj from Hunter College, and Amelia England from GaTech!

In addition, we are joined this summer by local students Emma Tao, Zheming Zhang, Ryan Jang, and Brian Ma.
Jun 6, 2026
MONET collaboration in Nature

Congratulations to Heecheol on his contribution to the latest MONET collaboration on incorporating mechanophores to improve the properties of polymers in Nature! Read more about it here and at MIT News!

Jun 4, 2026
Elizabeth receives MIT OGE Fellowship

Congratulations to Elizabeth Sebastian on receiving a Henry C. (1926) and Frances Keany Rickard Fund Fellowship from the MIT Office of Graduate Education!
Jun 3, 2026
Xiao's conformation-switching mechanophore paper in Inorganic Chemistry

Congratulations to Xiao on the acceptance of his manuscript describing the computational discovery of transition metal mechanophores! Read more about it here!

May 11, 2026
Heather to serve as Chief Scientist at Deep Principle

Deep Principle, a startup founded by Kulik group alumni Chenru Duan and Haojun Jia, has named Prof. Kulik Chief Scientist! Read more about it here!

Mar 31, 2026
QuantumPDB paper to appear in JCIM

Congratulations to David, Weiliang, and the rest of the team on the acceptance of their manuscript describing QuantumPDB in JCIM! Read more about it here!

Mar 31, 2026
Heather talks AI Materials on the Latent Space podcast

Heather joined the Latent Space podcast for a discussion ‘Why There Is No “AlphaFold for Materials” — AI for Materials Discovery’! Check it out here!

Mar 24, 2026