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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 Models”, Nature Machine Intelligence, 2021, 3, 76-86. DOI: 10.1038/s42256-020-00271-1.
Feb. 2021 – Professor Woo wins faculty’s “Researcher of the Year” award
February 2021. Congratulations to Professor Woo who was won the Faculty of Science’s 2020-2021 Research Excellence Award, also known as the Researcher of the Year award.
Jan. 2021 – Congratulations to Chris Rowley on his new faculty position
January 2021. Congratulations to Woo lab alumni Chris Rowley (Ph.D. 2010) on his new faculty position at Carleton University, here in Ottawa. Chris is moving his lab from Memorial University. Chris is originally from Ottawa so we aren’t sure but he may have moved back in with his parents!
Dec. 2020 – Jake’s undergraduate thesis published in JPC.
December 2020. Congratulations to Jake whose undergraduate thesis was published in the Journal of Physical Chemistry. Burner, J.; Schwiedrzik, L.; Krykunov, M. ; Luo, J.; Boyd, P.G.; Woo, T.K.* “High-Performing Deep Learning Regression Models for Predicting Low-Pressure CO2 Adsorption Properties of Metal-Organic Frameworks”, Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 2020, 124, 27996. link.
Dec. 2019 – Professor Woo interviewed on CBC radio.
Woo was interviewed on CBC Radio for the group’s work on CO2 capture materials. link
Dec. 2019 – New annual newsletter the uOttawa Chemistry Connections 2019
December 2019. The Chemistry department has released its all new annual newsletter, the uOttawa Chemistry Connections. click here for the English version (French version)
Oct. 2019 Peter’s Ph.D. thesis work published in Nature.
Oct. 2019 – Congratulations to Peter Boyd, whose Ph.D. thesis work in the Woolab was published in the prestigious journal Nature. Boyd, P.G.; Chidambaram, A.; Daff, T.D.; Bounds, R.; Gładysiak, A.; Schouwink, P.; Moosavi, S.M.; Reimer, J. A; Navarro, J.A.R; Woo, T.K.*; Garcia, S.*; Stylianou, K.C.*; Smit, B.*“Data driven design and synthesis of metal-organic frameworks for wet flue gas CO2 capture” Nature, 2019, 576, 253. link.
Sept. 2019 – Jun, Jake and Adam Join the Lab.
September 2019 – Jun Luo and Adam Mirmiran join the lab as a M.Sc. student and Jake Burner joins the lab as a co-op student. He will also be doing his 4th year thesis project in the lab beginning in January.
