Group Members

Principal Investigator:

Troy Van Voorhis

Haslam and Dewey Professor of Chemistry

Office: 6-211
Email: tvan@mit.edu

 

 


Post Docs:

Alexandra Raeber

PhD, Theoretical Chemistry, University of Chicago, 2020
MSc, Theoretical Chemistry, University of Chicago, 2015
AB, Chemistry, Bryn Mawr College, 2013

Office: 6-232
Email: araeber@mit.edu

 

Oinam Romesh Meitei

PhD, Theoretical Chemistry, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, 2018
MSc, Chemistry, Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology, 2015
BSc, Chemistry, Madras Christian College, 2013

Office: 6-226
Email: oimeitei@mit.edu

 

Matthias Kick

PhD, Theoretical Chemistry, Technical University of Munich, 2020
MSc, Chemistry, Technical University of Munich, 2016
BSc, Chemistry, Technical University of Munich, 2014

Office: 6-234B
Email: mkick@mit.edu

 

Beck Hanscam

PhD, Chemistry, University of California—Berkeley, 2023
BS, Mathematics and Chemistry, University of Puget Sound, 2016
 

Office: 6-234
Email: bhanscam@mit.edu

 


Graduate Students:

Ezra Alexander

MIT Dean of Science Fellow
BA, Mathematics and Chemistry, Amherst College, 2020

Office: 6-234B
Email: ezraa@mit.edu

 

 

Leah Weisburn

BA, Mathematics and Chemistry, Colgate University, 2020

Office: 6-234A
Email: lweisbur@mit.edu
 

 

 

Alex Byrne

NSF Graduate Research Fellow
BS, Chemistry, Temple University, 2021

Office: 6-234
Email: lxbyrne@mit.edu

 

 

Kimberly Zhang

NSF Graduate Research Fellow
Ida M. Green Fellow
B.S. Mathematics and Chemistry, University of California, Irvine, 2021

Office: 6-234
Email: kimzhang@mit.edu
 

 

Minsik Cho

Robert T. Haslam (1911) MIT Presidential Fellow
Kwanjeong Fellow
Sc. B., Chemical Physics, Brown University, 2022

Office:
Email: minsik@mit.edu
 

 

Alexandra Alexiu

MSci, Chemistry, University of Cambridge
BA, Natural Sciences (Chemistry), University of Cambridge

Office:
Email: alexiu@mit.edu

 

 

Shaun Weatherly

Vice Chancellor's Inclusive Excellence Fellow
B.S., Chemistry and Biology, University of Redlands, 2022

Office:
Email: shaunrw@mit.edu

 

 


Visiting Scientists:

Inkoo Kim

PhD, Theoretical Chemistry, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, 2014
BSc, Chemistry, University College London, 2007

Office: 6-234A
Email: inkookim@mit.edu

 

 

Victor Bastidas

PhD, Theoretical Quantum Physics, Technical University of Berlin, 2013
MSc, Physics, Universidad del Valle Colombia, 2009
BSc, Physics, Universidad del Valle Colombia, 2006

Office: 6-228
Email: victor83@mit.edu

 


Undergraduate Students:

Yongao Hu

 

 

 

 

 


Former members:

Post Docs

Jacqueline Tan, Scientist, Institute of High Performance Computing (IHPC)
Tamar Goldzak, Assistant Professor, Bar Ilan University
Zhou Lin, Assistant Professor, University of Massachusetts Amherst
James Shepherd, Assistant Professor, The University of Iowa
Piotr de Silva, Assistant Professor, Technical University of Denmark (DTU)
Valerie Vaissier Welborn, Assistant Professor, Virginia Tech
Helen van Aggelen, Senior Research Scientist, Philips Research
Takashi Tsuchimochi, Research Assistant Professor, Kobe University
Shuhao Wen, Cofounder, XtalPI Inc
David McMahon
Jiahao Chen, Research Scientist, MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
Indranil Rudra, Research Chemist, Shell Technology Center
Qin Wu, Staff Scientist, Brookhaven National Lab
Oleg Vydrov
Sina Yeganeh, EM Portfolio Manager, Bracebridge Capital

Graduate Students

Henry Tran, Postdoc, Columbia University
Changhae Andrew Kim, Postdoc, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Alexandra McIsaac, Staff Scientist, Open Force Field
Hong-Zhou Ye, Postdoc, Columbia University
Nathan Ricke, Senior Expert in Data Science, Novartis
Tianyu Zhu, Assistant Professor, Yale
Ricardo Pablo Pedro, Postdoc, MIT
Alex Kohn, Data Scientist, Cylance Inc.
Nadav Geva, Senior Software Engineer, AMD
Michael Mavros, Chemistry Laboratory Instructor, Wellesley College
Matt Welborn, Executive Director of Machine Learning, Entos
Eric Hontz, Software Engineer, Cisco
Helen Xie
Shane Yost, Assistant Professor, Texas State University
Laken Top, Graduate Student in Science Education, University of Colorado Boulder
Benjamin Kaduk, Senior Software Engineer, Akamai Technologies
Tim Kowalczyk, Associate Professor, Western Washington University
Lee-Ping Wang, Associate Professor, University of California Davis
Seth Difley, Senior Manager of Software Development, Zoro
Jeremy Evans
XiaoGeng Song, Quantitative Trader, Squarepoint Capital
Chiao-Lun Cheng, Freelance Data Scientist
Aiyan Lu, Director of Business Insights and Analytics, Sobi

Undergraduate Students

Anton Morgunov
Shicheng Hu
Ben Chien
Lin Rogers
Anton Ni
Kelly Chen
Hikari Iwasaki
Diptarka Hait
Anubhav Sinha
David Hocker
Carter Lin