Previous Software Fellows

Diego Kleiman

University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

2023-24 Software Fellow

MolSSI Software Mentor:

"Design and implementation of a machine learning model for automatic reaction coordinate discovery in proteins"

Monika Kodrycka

Auburn University

2019 Software Fellow

Adviser: Prof. Konrad Patkowski

MolSSI Software Mentor: Dr. Levi Naden

The development of a massively parallel framework for computing dispersion energies using explicitly correlated methods"

Lauren Koulias

University of Washington

2019-2020 Software Fellow

Adviser: Prof. Xiaosong Li

MolSSI Software Mentor: Dr. Jonathan Moussa and Dr. Daniel Smith

Development of time-dependent equation-of-motion coupled-cluster methods with a focus on relativistic effects"

James M. Kriger

University of Pittsburgh

2020 Software Fellow

Adviser: Prof. Ivet Bahar

MolSSI Software Mentor: Dr. Andrew Abi-Mansour

“Applying a multi-component computational approach to the coronavirus spike protein, which will provide a greater understanding of how the virus enters host cells and therefore will help identify drugs that interfere with such mechanisms."

Dr. Rachel Kurchin

Carnegie Mellon University

2021 Software Fellow

Advisor: Prof. Vankat Viswanathan

MolSSI Software Mentor: Dr. Sina Mostafanejad

Development of next-generation graph-based models as computationally inexpensive surrogates for first-principles quantum calculations"

Kate Lebold

Pennsylvania State University

2017-2019 Software Fellow

Adviser: Prof. William Noid

MolSSI Software Mentor: Dr. Eliseo Marin-Rimoldi

Thermodynamic state point transferability of coarse-grained models through the force-, pressure-, and energy-matching methodologies"

Sebastian Lee

California Institute of Technology

2019-2021 Software Fellow

Adviser: Prof. Thomas Miller

MolSSI Software Mentor: Dr. Taylor Barnes

Creation of a general, open-sourced implementation the projection-based wavefunction- in-DFT embedding method to provide a general framework for application studies using wide-ranging codes and for quantum embedding method developments"

Jiyoung Lee

University of Texas at Austin

2022-23 Software Fellow

Advisor: Prof. Graeme Henkelman

MolSSI Software Mentor: Dr. Sina Mostafanejad

“Development of on-the-fly machine learning Fortran module to accelerate optimization process”

Jeremy Leung

University of Pittsburgh

2023-24 Software Fellow

MolSSI Software Mentor:

"An Interoperable WESTPA Framework for Machine-Learning-Enhanced Weighted Ensemble Simulations of Rare Events"

Shuhang Li

Emory University

2024-25 Software Fellow

“Efficient implementation of accurate and stable equation-of-motion multireference renormalization group algorithms for simulations of electronic excitation, ionization, and attachment in open-shell systems.”