Anima AI + Science Lab

Group Retreat, 2025

Current Students

Robert Joseph George

AI for Mathematics, Efficient Scientific Computing

Chuwei Wang

ML for Physical Science

Beom Seok Kang

ML for Quantum Chemistry

Jiachen Yao

Generative Modeling, Inverse Problems

Maurice Hanisch

ML for Quantum Chemistry

Xinyi Li

AI for Science, AI for PDE

Ryan Liu

ML for Physical Science

Postdocs

Amin Tavakoli

Generative AI for Protein Design, ML for Quantum Chemistry

Valentin Duruisseaux

Physics-Informed ML for Science

Yu Zhang

AI for Chemistry

Xi Deng

Monte Carlo for PDEs, Inverse Problems

Danish Khan

Quantum Chemistry, Machine Learning

Awards

Fellowships

Alumni

Jiawei Zhao

Ph.D., Research Scientist at Meta FAIR

Zongyi Li

Ph.D., Postdoctoral Researcher at MIT

Rafal Kocielnik

Ph.D., AI Research Scientist at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

Myrl Marmarelis

Ph.D., Senior ML Engineer

Bahareh Tolooshams

Ph.D., Assistant Professor at University of Alberta

Jiayun (Peter) Wang

Ph.D., Senior Research Scientist, Accenture

Julius Berner

Ph.D., Research Scientist at NVIDIA

Daniel Leibovici

Ph.D., Research Scientist at NVIDIA

Sahin Lale

Ph.D., Senior Staff Algorithm Engineer at Neural Propulsion Systems, Inc

Zhuoran Qiao

Ph.D., Founding Scientist at Chai Discovery

Dani Kiyasseh

DPhil, Senior AI Engineer at Vicarious Surgical

Nikola B. Kovachki

Ph.D., Research Scientist at NVIDIA

Pan Xu

Ph.D., Assistant Professor at Duke University

Florian Schäfer

Ph.D., Assistant Professor at Georgia Tech

Huaizu Jiang

Ph.D., Assistant Professor at Northeastern University

Yuanyuan Shi

Ph.D., Assistant Professor at UC San Diego

Anqi (Angie) Liu

Ph.D., Assistant Professor at Johns Hopkins University

Kamyar Azizzadenesheli

Ph.D., Senior Research Scientist at NVIDIA

Yang Shi

Ph.D., Research Scientist at Rakuten Institue of Technology

Rose Yu

Ph.D., Associate Professor at UC San Diego

Forough Arabshahi

Ph.D., Research Scientist at Facebook

Hanie Sedghi

Ph.D., Research Scientist at Google Brain

Furong Huang

Ph.D., Associate Professor at University of Maryland, College Park

Majid Janzamin

Ph.D., Research Scientist at Twitter

Undergrads, Visiting scholars and Interns

Abbas Mammadov

2025, from KAIST (Now at University of Oxford)

Luca Ghafourpour

2025, from ETH Zurich (Now at Cambridge University)

Jiayi Zhou

2025, from Peking University

Adarsh Ganeshram

2025, from UC Berkeley

Nivedha Gopinath

2025, from IIT Bombay

Siyuan Jiang

2025, from University of Pennsylvania

Duy Nguyen

2025, from California Institute of Technology

Sebastian Loeschcke

2025, from University of Copenhagen

Ryan Lin

2024, from California Institute of Technology

Xinyi Li

2024, from California Institute of Technology

Divin (Liang) Yan

2024, from Fudan University

Junhua Chen

2024, from Cambridge University

Freya Shah

2024, from Ahmedabad University (Now at University of Oxford)

Armeet Singh Jatyani

2023, from California Institute of Technology

Vivian Zhang

2022, from California Institute of Technology

Sara Kangaslahti

2022, from California Institute of Technology

Meena Hari

2022, from California Institute of Technology

Inhoo Lee

2022, from California Institute of Technology

Advaith Sai Maddipatla

2022, from University of Edinburgh

Nithin Varma

2022, from IIT Madras

Daniel Israel

2022, from California Institute of Technology (Now at UCLA)

Zhouhao Yang

2022, from Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Snigdha Saha

2022, from California Institute of Technology

Robert Joseph George

2022, from University of Alberta

Yifei Zhang

2022, from University of Wisconsin–Madison

Haydn Maust

2022, from California Institute of Technology

Kimia Hassibi

2022, from California Institute of Technology

Miguel Liu-Schiaffini

2022, from California Institute of Technology

Rishi Gundakaram

2022, from California Institute of Technology

Idris Sunmola

2021, from Northwestern University (Now at Johns Hopkins University)

David Jin

2021, from California Institute of Technology

Derek Lin

2021, from California Institute of Technology

Maya Srikanth

2021, from California Institute of Technology

Jeffrey Ma

2020, from California Institute of Technology

Alex Pan

2020, from California Institute of Technology

Pranay Mundra

2020, from University of Washington, Seattle

Hongkai Zheng

2019, from Shanghai Jiao Tong University (Now at Caltech)

Sihui (Sophie) Dai

2019, from California Institute of Technology

Qibing Ren

2019, from Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Albert Zhai

2019, from California Institute of Technology

Jihwan Bae

2019, from Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST)

Abhijeet Vyas

2019, from Indian Institute of Technology Madras

Hongjie Chen

2018, from Shanghai Jiao Tong University (Now at ETH Zürich)

Jiawei Zhao

2018, from Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (Now at Caltech)

Zongyi Li

2018, from Washington University in St. Louis