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We are excited to share that Victor Wu, an undergraduate researcher in our group, received 1st Prize for the Best Poster in the Computing and Process Control division at the AIChE 2025 Annual Meeting in Boston. Victor’s poster was recognized for its technical depth, clarity, and strong contribution to computational Continue Reading

Our undergraduate researchers did us proud at the recent AIChE annual meeting in San Diego. Senior Jarett Ren won 2nd prize for his poster on machine learning-accelerated closed loop discovery of spacecraft actuator materials. Junior Victor Wu also won 2nd place for his poster on a summer internship project. Well done Continue Reading

3rd year PhD student, Kumar Miskin, is the recipient of two fellowships this year: The Robert B. Pond, Sr. Fellowship for 2024-25 and the Donald S. Rodbell Memorial Graduate Fellowship which is a three-year fellowship. Both of these fellowships are awarded for outstanding performance in coursework and research. Congratulations to Kumar!

Machine learning for materials process monitoring in real time is now closer to reality than ever thanks to a new joint effort by Mitra Taheri’s group and the Clancy lab. Kudos to the students, Taheri’s Jon Hollenbach and Clancy group graduate, Dr. Haili Jia for this paper in Scientific Reports. Delighted Continue Reading

Yirun “Gigi” Wang has been awarded a Certificate of Undergraduate Excellence by the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC).  This Certificate recognizes UG students who have shown significant achievement in the chemical sciences. Awardees are chosen for excellence in academic performance, research, and commitment to service.  Wang also received one year of Associate Membership in Continue Reading

So proud of Dr. Seba AlAreeqi on passing her PhD defence at Khalifa University. Seba was a wonderful member of the group last year and we miss seeing her beautiful slides and impressive work every week. Congrats too to her wonderful advisor, Prof. Lourdes Vega, shown with Dr. AlAreeqi, for Continue Reading

We are so proud of our Clancy group alumnus, Dr. Mardochée Reveil, as he begins his new role as Vice President, AI & Modeling for Materials Innovation, for Standard Industries.  Mardochée was one of the first two students in my group to excel in machine learning techniques, ploughing his own Continue Reading

Former Clancy group member and winner of the inaugural Mark Robbins award for high-performance computing, Dr. Andrew Ruttinger has accepted a Clean Energy Technology Analyst position at the prestigious International Energy Agency (IEA). He will be moving to the IEA offices in Paris, not a bad introduction to the Agency. Continue Reading

Congratulations to our wonderful graduates:  Drs. Haili Jia and Xiangyu (Aaron) Chen, MS graduates Araben Tablizo and Kumar Miskin and BS super-student, Yirun (Gigi) Wang.  Dr. Jia is now a post-doc with Dr. Maria Chan at Argonne National Laboratory, Dr. Chen is a scientist with Schlumberger in Boston. Kumar Miskin Continue Reading

Superlative senior, Yiran “Gigi” Wang won the Hopkins’ Loy Wilkinson award that recognizes academic excellence, leadership, and service in ChemBE. Gigi has a 4.0 record in UG courses, mentors younger peers in foundational coding courses, and led the team who constructed this year’s much fuller Senior Yearbook.  She will be Continue Reading