Welcome to Eric Marants, who has officially joined our group as a Ph.D. student!
Zain wins ACS COMP Undergrad Poster Award!
Congratulations to Zain, who (as a rising sophomore!) won the ACS COMP Division Undergraduate Poster Award at the Fall 2023 National Meeting of the ACS in San Francisco. Great job, Zain, and great job to his postdoc mentor, Arshad!
Update: SBU did a news article on Zain and Arshad’s accomplishment. Check it out!

Welcome Ari, Eric, and Iulianna!
Welcome to Ari Pereira, Eric Marants, and Iulianna Taradachuk! Ari is an incoming Ph.D. student joining our group. He comes from Birla Institute Of Technology And Science, Pilani. He’s previously performed Masters research projects with Federica Agostini and Oleg Prezhdo.
Eric is also an incoming Ph.D. student who will do a rotation in our group this Fall. He comes from Cornell, where he did undergraduate research Nandini Ananth.
Iullianna is an undergraduate student in Chemistry who will be working on a senior thesis project.
Congratulations, Almost-Dr Durden!
Congratulations to Andy Durden, who successfully defended his PhD thesis! Next month, Andy will be joining the group of Berny Schlegel at Wayne State University. Keep up the good work, Andy!

Welcome, Peter!
Welcome to Peter Scully, an undergraduate student joining us from Tufts University for the summer. Peter is with us as a participant in the Data + Computing = Discovery (DCD) REU program, hosted by IACS. Peter will be working on a machine learning project with Arshad.
Welcome Back, Jiri!
Jiri Suchan rejoins the group as an IACS Postdoctoral Fellow. Welcome back, and congratulations!
Congrats, Ken!
Congratulations to Ken, who successfully defended is MS thesis last week! Ken has done wonderful work with our collaborators in the Jiao group, developing novel strategies for compressing the CI vector of strongly correlated systems. (Stay tuned for a publication.) Ken is moving to Brown University to pursue his PhD.
Congrats Frank!
Congratulations to Frank Xin Qi Liu, group member and Bronx High School of Science student, who has been named a Top 300 Scholar in the Regeneron Science Talent Search for his work on fluorescent dyes for diagnostic applications! And nice work, as well, to his graduate student mentor, Fangchun Liang!
Congrats Jiri Suchan!
Friend of the group Jiří Suchan has been awarded the Institute for Advanced Computational Science (IACS) Postdoctoral Fellowship! Jiří is currently finishing his Ph.D. in the Slavíček group at the University of Chemistry and Technology in Prague, and will return to IACS to start his Fellowship this summer. Congrats, Jiří!
Welcome Satoshi!
Welcome to Satoshi Ohtsuka! Satoshi is a masters student in Chemistry who will be working on his thesis research in our group, studying the spectroscopic properties of metal nanoclusters.
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