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Bio

I am currently a BIDMaP Fellow at the University of Calfornia, Berkeley advised by Omar Yaghi, Jennifer Chayes, and Christian Borgs. I completed by PhD at the Department of Chemical Engineering & Biotechnology at the University of Cambridge where I was fortunate to be advised by David Fairen-Jimenez . Prior to Cambridge, I completed my MS at the University of California, Berkeley where I was fortunate to be advised by Berend Smit. Prior to that, I did my undergraduate research at IIT Bombay where I was fortunate to be advised by Ateeque Malani. I completed by undergraduate degree at Manipal Institute of Technology. My research deals with the development of novel algorithms using molecular simulation, high performance computing, and machine learning, to accelerate the discovery of novel porous materials for applications such as carbon capture, energy storage, catalysis, and drug delivery.

Here's a video explaining the research I do:



Here is a video explaining the background of our new paper on the reproducibility of surface areas calculated using the BET equation, published in Advanced Materials:

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Preprints

(Note: ^§ denotes equal contribution, * denotes corresponding author)

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Publications

(Note: ^§ denotes equal contribution, * denotes corresponding author)

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Talks

• Invited talk (virtual/in-person) at the Nanyang Technological University (School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences), 21^st January 2022.
• Presentation (virtual) at the 2^nd International School on Porous Materials: MOFschool2021, Lake Como School of Advanced Studies, 21-25 June 2021.
• Presentation (virtual) at the bp-ICAM Annual Conference 2020, 20^th-21^st October 2020.
• Invited talk at Chalmers University of Techonology (Department of Physics), 4^th February 2019.
• Invited talk at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (Department of Theoretical Chemical Biology), 1^st February 2019.
• Invited talk at the Theoretical Chemistry Seminar at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), 14^th December 2018.

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Awards

• Cambridge International Scholarship
• Trinity Henry-Barlow Scholarship
• Merit based Scholarship in Fall 2016 and Spring 2017 at UC, Berkeley
• Top 3 of the graduating class at MIT, Manipal
• School Topper Medal in the Unified Cyber Olympiad
• School Wiz Kid Medal in the 10^th National Science Olympiad
• 1 of 3 winners of the Global Young Scientists Summit 2021 Video Competition
• Full bursary to attend MOFSchool2021 provided by the Italian Crystallographic Association

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Teaching

• Graduate Student Instructor for Mathematical Methods in Geophysics, Spring 2017 at UC, Berkeley (Nominated for the Outstanding GSI Award)
• Supervisor for the module on ‘Adsorption and Advanced Nanoporous Materials’ as part of the Chemical Engineering Tripos, Michaelmas Term 2022, University of Cambridge
• Co-instructor for a 6-week summer course on ‘Adsorption and Nanoporous Materials’ run by Cambridge Enterprise, Summer 2021 (1 course), 2022 (2 courses), and 2023 (1 course)

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Mentoring

• Mythili Sutharson, MPhil. in Advanced Chemical Engineering, Oct’ 2019 to Aug’ 2020 – Currently an Associate Consultant at Bain
• Hiu Ki Wong, Part IIB in Chemical Engineering, Oct’ 2020 to April 2021 – Currently a Data Engineer at Pirical
• George Irving, Part IIB in Chemical Engineering, Oct’ 2021 to April 2022 – Awarded the 1st prize for the best poster presentation
• Khalid Al-Otaibi, MPhil. in Advanced Chemical Engineering, April 2022 to August 2022 (Saudi Aramco)
• Zhiling Zheng, PhD in Chemistry, June 2023 to December 2023 – Currently a postdoc with Prof. Klavs Jensen at MIT
• Ali Al-Awadhi, PhD in Chemistry, September 2023 to Ongoing
• Kaiyu Wang, PhD in Chemistry, September 2023 to Ongoing
• Juri Al-Johani, BS in Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, December 2023 to Ongoing

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Last update: 19^th February, 2024. Template adapted (with permission) from Huacheng Yu's.