the gomes group @ CMU

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Gabe Gomes

Gabe loves music and computers. Computers and chemistry. Sometimes he tries to solve chemistry problems with computers while listening to music.

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administration

Hannah Carroll

Hailing from Pittsburgh, PA Hannah is a former ballet dancer turned administrator, and is serving as Administrative Coordinator to the ChemE Department. Hannah graduated from Mercyhurst University in 2018 with a BA in Ballet and a minor in Exercise Science. In her spare time, she enjoys reading, hiking with her dog, art museums, cooking, and tending to her plants.

postdoc

Liliana Gallegos

Liliana has a background in developing mechanistic models with quantum chemistry for various synthetic reactions. Now, she will explore novel ML/AI algorithms for autonomous experimentation. You can also find her on adventures in a traveling camper van or grooving to all types of music with her two favorite earthlings - her husband and dog.

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phd students

Robert MacKnight

Robert hopes to tackle problems in the field of computer-aided reaction engineering. His other interests are music, sports, and video games. Robert is a die-hard Philadelphia sports fan. Above all else, Robert hopes to learn a lot from his peers while hopefully returning the favor along the way.

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Daniil Boiko

Daniil is particularly interested in machine learning for catalyst and reaction discovery. He likes good code and sometimes pays too much attention to details.

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Jose Regio

Jose is a Chemistry PhD student at CMU and a proud Filipino-American. He does not have any pets but instead a little sister who sometimes likes to pretend she is a cat.

undergraduate students

Dhruthi Gundurao

Dhruthi is an undergraduate chemistry major at the University of Pittsburgh visiting the Gomes Group as a summer REU student as a part of the C-CAS 2023 DATA SURF program. Currently a rising senior at Pitt, Dhruthi loves learning all things chemistry and is interesting in exploring applications of machine learning in the group this summer. In the future she hopes to go to law school in an effort to merge the gap between the science and legal fields.

Jiale Lu

Jiale aspires to apply a computational lens to assist chemistry discoveries. In his leisure time, he finds joy in cooking, photography, and brewing teas.

affiliates

Thiago Reschützegger

Despite his Austrian surname, Thiago is Brazilian and Uruguayan. He loves science and life. Therefore, his main interest is to push science to improve life. In his free time, he is a Chemical Engineering undergraduate student.

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Augusto Cesar

A Brazilian that loves to learn new things. Saw computer science and artificial intelligence as a way to contribute to collaborating with different types of projects and advance science. Hopes to help the development of an Artificial General Intelligence open and not end with humanity in the process.

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Yusef Ahmed

Yusef loves physical organic chemistry and music. He also enjoys philosophical discussions and keeping up with the latest in the tech world.

Edgar Sanchez

Edgar is a doctoral researcher at the Otto von Guericke University and the Max Planck Institute - Magdeburg visiting the Gomes Group for 3 months. He is particularly interested in using GNNs for the prediction of molecular and mixture properties for Process Systems Engineering applications. He loves tacos al pastor, salsa verde, learning new stuff and exploring nature.

alumni

• Mehak Malik

Casey Tsai

Christina Tavlarakis

Ethan Kwack

Jose Regio

Anchit Singhal

Parth Patel

pets

Louise

Louise can do weird and useless tricks

Pancho

Sometimes Pancho pretends to be a plant

Fibi

Fibi always asks for a cafuné (portuguese word without translation)

Mini

People say she fell into a paint can

Finn

Clumsy and afraid of moths

Brewster

He is a loyal one year old maltese with a world famous bark.

Supernova

She is a true mountain and beach mama… an all terrain gal!