The Team


Principal Investigator

Rafael Gómez-Bombarelli

Postdoctoral Researchers

Johannes Dietschreit Alexander Hoffman Jiayu Peng

Graduate Students

James Damewood Simon Axelrod Kevin Greenman Aik Rui Tan Pablo Leon
Swagata Roy Gavin Winter Avni Singhal Jurģis Ruža Akshay Subramanian
Yuliia Orlova Mingrou Xie Xiaochen Du Yitong Tseo Soojung Yang
Tatem Rios Lauren Chua Ty Perez Nofit Segal Pengfei Cai

Undergraduate Students

Jonathan Shan BASc Materials Science and Engineering, University of Toronto (2024)
Saumya Thakur BS/MS Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology - Bombay (2023)
Temiloluwa Akande BS Chemical Engineering, Howard University (2024)
Ray Wang SB Computer Science at MIT (2025)
Temujin Orkhon SB Chemistry at MIT (2026)
Gilford Ting SB Materials Science and Engineering at MIT (2026)
Nga (Neri) Vu BS Chemical Engineering, Bucknell University (2025)

Visitors

Lucia Vina Lopez Visiting Postbaccalaureate Researcher
Max Tiefenbacher Visiting PhD Student from University of Vienna
Eiji Kanda Visitor from Toyota Motor Corporation (Japan)
Amin Debabeche Visiting Master's Student from EPFL

Alumni

Jaclyn Lunger PhD Student (2020-2023) Now at Flagship Pioneering FL96
Tetsunori Morishita Visitor (2022-2023) Now at Toyota Motor Corporation (Japan)
Nathan Walemba Visiting Master's Student, University of Oxford (2022-2023)  
Reisel Millán Cabrera Postdoc (2021-2022)  
Alor Sahoo UROP (2022) Pursuing SB in Computer Science at MIT (2026)
Martin Šípka Visiting PhD Student (2022) Completing PhD at Charles University (Prague, Czech Republic)
Hoje Chun Visiting PhD Student (2022) Completing PhD at Yonsei University (Seoul, South Korea)
Wujie Wang PhD Student (2018-2022) Now at Generate Biomedicines
Jessica Karaguesian Master's Student (2020-2022) Now a Knight-Hennessy Scholar / PhD Student at Stanford
Gabe Bradford Master's Student (2020-2022) Now at Urbix
Daniel Schwalbe-Koda PhD Student (2018-2022) Now a postdoc at LLNL, Incoming Assistant Professor at UCLA DMSE
Somesh Mohapatra PhD Student (2018-2022) Now completing MBA at MIT Sloan
Omar A. Santiago-Reyes UROP (2020-2022) Now a PhD Student at Caltech
Joyce An UROP (2020-2022) Now a PhD Student at Stanford
Cale Gregory UROP (2022) Pursuing SB in Computer Science at MIT (2023)
Elenna Kim UROP (2022) Pursuing SB in Computer Science at MIT (2025)
Aditi Saayujya UROP (2021-22) Pursuing SB in Materials Science and Engineering at MIT (2022)
Johannes P. Dürholt Visitor (2022) Now at Evonik
Jakub Lála Visiting Master's Student, Imperial College London (2021) Pursuing MEng in Materials Science & Engineering at Imperial (2022)
Yu Yang (Fredrik) Liu Postdoc (2020-2021) Now Founder at DeepVerse
Shi Jun Ang Postdoc (2019-2021) Now at A*STAR (Singapore)
Tzuhsiung (Nick) Yang Postdoc (2019-2021) Now Assistant Professor at National Tsing Hua University (NTHU)
Ricky Osterude Rey UROP (2019-2020) Now at Tesla
Diego Raygoza-Castanos UROP (2019-2020) Pursuing SB in Computer Science and Mathematics at MIT (2022)
William H Harris Master's Student (2018-2020) Now at Apro Resources, Inc
Daniel Marti Dafcik Visiting Master's Student, ETH Zurich (2020) Now a PhD Student at Oxford University
Jurģis Ruža Visiting Master's Student, EPFL (2020) Rejoined our group as a DMSE PhD student
Alexis Gervaix Visiting Master's Student, EPFL (2019) Now at GentleTouch / Swiss Airtainer
Alexandra Dima UROP (2018) Pursuing MEng in Computer Systems at MIT (2022)