News

Welcome to a host of new arrivals in the group:

• Dr. Shams Mehdi joins us as a postdoc from the Isayaev lab at CMU and a PhD with Pratyush Tiwary.
• Dr. Ignacio Migliaro joins us a postdoc from Stirling lab at UT Dallas and a PhD with Thomas Cundari.
• Dr. Mubarak Bello joins us as a School of Engineering Excellence Postdoctoral Fellow after recently completing his PhD with Andreas Heyden.
• Dr. Jason Yang joins us as a Tayebati Postdoctoral Fellow co-advised by Tommi Jaakola. He will be in the group before starting a faculty position at JHU next year.
• Shih-Peng Huang has returned to the group, now as a Master’s student.

Congratulations to Aaron Garrison and Yuzhe Wang for receiving XtalPi AI for Science Fellowships supporting their work in the group!

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

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.

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.

Congratulations to Elizabeth Sebastian on receiving a Henry C. (1926) and Frances Keany Rickard Fund Fellowship from the MIT Office of Graduate Education!