Team
Principal Investigator
Nick Jackson, PhD
he/him
Prof. Jackson is an Assistant Professor of Chemistry at UIUC and leader of the AI for Materials Group at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology. He obtained his B.A. in Physics from Wesleyan University, followed by a Ph.D. in Chemistry from Northwestern University, working with Prof. Mark Ratner and Prof. Lin Chen. He was subsequently a Named Fellow and Assistant Scientist in the Materials Science Division at Argonne National Laboratory, working with Prof. Juan de Pablo. His group's work at the interface of AI, molecular modeling, and soft materials chemistry has received recognition from Kavli, DOE, Cottrell, Dreyfus, AIChE COMSEF, ACS OpenEye, ACS PRF, and 3M.
Postdoctoral Researchers
Katie Kidder she/her Postdoctoral Associate Ph.D. Chemistry - Pennsylvania State University |
Vishnu Raghuraman he/him Postdoctoral Associate Ph.D. Physics - Carnegie Mellon University |
Viviana she/her Beckman Postdoctoral Fellow Ph.D. Molecular Engineering - University of Chicago |
Hang Zhang he/him Postdoctoral Associate Ph.D. Chemistry - Princeton University |
Graduate Students
G5
Shruti Iyer
she/her
Integrated M.S. Chemistry - Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani
G4
Anna DeBernardo
she/her
B.S. Chemistry, Mathematics - Case Western Reserve University
Huihang Qiu
he/him
M.S. Chemical Engineering - University of Tokyo
B.S. Chemistry - Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Jason Wu
he/him
Chemistry at Princeton University
Co-advised with Prof. Schroeder
B.S. Chemistry, B.A. Computer Science - Boston College
G3
Eliza Asani
she/her
B.S. Chemistry, Computer Science - The University of Alabama in Huntsville
Matthew Too
he/him
B.S. Biochemistry, Mathematics - State University of New York Brockport
G2
Jinwon Lee
he/him
B.S. Chemistry - Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
Abby Miller
she/her
Co-advised with Prof. Rodríguez-López
B.S. Chemistry - Grand Valley State University
Undergraduate Students
Alumni
Graduate Students
| Seonghwan Kim | PhD Materials Science and Engineering 2021-2026 | Postdoctoral Fellow at NYU with Prof. Juan de Pablo |
| Archana Verma | PhD Chemical Engineering 2021-2026 | |
| Charlie Maier | PhD Physics 2020-2025 | SAI Postdoctoral Fellow at Notre Dame with Prof. Brett Savoie |
| David Friday | PhD Chemistry 2020-2025 | Advisor, Scientific Computing – Bioproduct Research and Development, Lilly |
Postdocs
| Chun-I Wang | PD 2021-2024 | Assistant Professor at CUNY Lehman College |
| Zheng Yu | PD 2022-2024 | Postdoctoral Fellow at Princeton with Roberto Car and Mike Webb |
Undergraduates
| Reesa Espera | UG 2022-2026 | Samsung |
| Isaac Christensen | UG 2024-2026 | |
| Zylle Constantino | UG 2024-2025 | UG Researcher in Su Group |
| Sofia Sivilotti | UG 2023-2025 | Technical Implementation Associate at Uncountable |
| Aidan Lindsay | UG 2023-2025 | Ph.D program in Chemistry at the University of Chicago |
| Andriy Bilobokyy | UG 2023 | Associate Software Engineer I at Northrop Grumman |
| Andrew Qin | UG 2022-2023 | Ph.D program in Computer Science at Courant Institute, New York University |
| Rohini Ramabadran | UG 2021 | Software Engineer at SeatGeek |