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March 2026 – Compute Ontario highlight’s the Woo lab’s research.

March 2026-The Woo lab’s research is highlighted in the annual report of Compute Ontario.  link

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Feb. 2026 – New group members Grace and Aziz defeated by the Pho Challenge.

Feb. 2026- New group members Grace and Aziz try the XXL Pho challenge and are sadly defeated.   Below are Grace happily starting the challenge and Aziz at the breaking point.          

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Feb. 2026 -Our MOSAEC-DB paper part of the most popular porous materials collection in Chemical Science

Feb. 2026 – Congratulations to Marco and the group for their MOSAEC-DB paper making the journal’s most popular porous materials collection. – “MOSAEC-DB: A comprehensive database of experimental metal-organic frameworks with verified chemical accuracy suitable for molecular simulations” Chemical Science, 2025, 16, 4085.

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May 2025 – Prof. Woo delivers Plenary Lecture at MedPore 2025 in Morocco

May 2025:  Prof. Woo delivers a Plenary lecture at the 2nd Mediterranean Conference on Porous Materials, MedPore 2025 in Marrakech, Moracco.

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April 2025 – Congrats to Sydney and Rhiannon for their award winning undergrad theses.

Congratulations to Sydney and Rhiannon for successfully defending their undergrad thesis work. Rhiannon was awarded the best undergraduate thesis in Chemistry and Sydney was awarded the Hypercube undergraduate thesis award.  Sydney’s thesis was titled “The Effect Of Chemically Invalid Metalorganic Frameworks On The Predictive Abilities Of Machine Learning Models” and Rhiannon’s thesis was titled ” […]

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April. 2024 – Prof. Woo delivers Plenary Lecture at MOFSIM2024

Professor Woo presented a Plenary Lecture at the MOFSIM2024 (link) conference in Montpellier France titled “Buyer Beware: Alarming Structural Error Rates in MOF databases and Novel Detection and Correction Tools”

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January 2024 – The Woo lab hosts the annual meeting for the ACO2RDS project

The Woo lab is part of the multi-disciplinary ACO2RDS project involving several research groups from Canada, USA, Germany and France. The goal is to study and develop adsorption based CO2 capture systems. This year the lab hosted the annual meeting at the University of Ottawa.

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Jan. 2024 – We have moved our group news feed off of X/twitter

We have moved our group news feed off of X/twitter and will be migrating the news items back to our website posts.

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Jan. 2021 – Publication in Nature Machine Intelligence.

January 2021. Our collaborative work with Randy Snurr’s and Alain Aspuru-Guzik’s lab on using variational autoencoders for MOFs was published. Yao, Z; Sanchez-Lengeling, B.; Bobbitt, S.; Bucior, B.J.; Kumar, Sai Govind Hari ; Collins, S.P.;  Burns, T.; Woo, T.K.; Farha, O.; Snurr, R.Q.*;  Aspuru-Guzik, A.* “Inverse Design of Nanoporous Crystalline Reticular Materials with Deep Generative […]

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March 2019 – Congratulations to Evans – Killam Fellowship

Congratulations to Evans on being awarded a prestiguous Killam  Postdoctoral Fellowship which he is taking up at Dalhousie University to develop catalysts for water splitting.

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