Team

Principal Investigator

Troy Van Voorhis

Haslam and Dewey Professor of Chemistry

Office: 6-211

Email: tvan@mit.edu

Post Docs

Beck Hanscam

Office: 6-234

Email: bhanscam@mit.edu

- PhD, Chemistry, University of California—Berkeley, 2023

- BS, Mathematics and Chemistry, University of Puget Sound, 2016

Oskar Weser

Office: 6-232

Email: mcocdawc@mit.edu

- PhD, Chemistry, Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, 2024

- B.Sc., Mathematics, Fernuniversität Hagen, 2021

- M.Sc. & B.Sc., Chemistry, Georg-August-University Göttingen, 2017 & 2014

Graduate Students

Ezra Alexander

Office: 6-234B

Email: ezraa@mit.edu

- MIT Dean of Science Fellow

- BA, Mathematics and Chemistry, Amherst College, 2020

Leah Weisburn

Office: 6-234A

Email: lweisbur@mit.edu

- BA, Mathematics and Chemistry, Colgate University, 2020

Alex Byrne

Office: 6-234

Email: lxbyrne@mit.edu

- NSF Graduate Research Fellow

- BS, Chemistry, Temple University, 2021

Kimberly Zhang

Office: 6-234

Email: kimzhang@mit.edu

- NSF Graduate Research Fellow

- Ida M. Green Fellow

- B.S., Mathematics and Chemistry, University of California, Irvine, 2021

Minsik Cho

Office: 6-222A

Email: minsik@mit.edu

- Robert T. Haslam (1911) MIT Presidential Fellow

- Kwanjeong Fellow

- Sc.B., Chemical Physics, Brown University, 2022

Alexandra Alexiu

Office: 6-230

Email: alexiu@mit.edu

- MSci, Chemistry, University of Cambridge

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

Shaun Weatherly

Office: 6-222A

Email: shaunrw@mit.edu

- NSF Graduate Research Fellow

- Vice Chancellor's Inclusive Excellence Fellow

- B.S., Chemistry and Biology, University of Redlands, 2022

Carina Luo

Office: 6-234B

Email: cariluo@mit.edu

- BS, Chemistry, Brandeis University, 2024

Ethan Abraham

Office: 6-226

Email: ethana@mit.edu

- BA, Physics, University of Pennsylvania, 2024

- MS, Physics, University of Pennsylvania, 2024

Noah Whelpley

Office: 6-234A

Email: noahwhel@mit.edu

- Sc. B., Chemistry and Mathematics, Brown University, 2024

Undergraduate Students

Aleksandr Trofimov

Office:

Email: atrof002@mit.edu

Temujin Orkhon

Office:

Email: temujin@mit.edu

Alumni

Post Docs

  • Oinam Romesh Meitei
  • Alexandra Raeber, Assistant Professor, The University of the South
  • Matthias Kick, Group Leader, Fritz-Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society
  • 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

Visiting Scientists

  • Victor Bastidas, NTT Research
  • Inkoo Kim, Samsung Electronics

Undergraduate Students

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