Connor Coley
Henri Slezynger (1957) Career Development Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering
Who they work with
Connor Coley is the Henri Slezynger (1957) Career Development Assistant Professor in MIT’s Department of Chemical Engineering. His research focuses on combining chemical engineering, computer science, and chemistry to advance the computer-aided discovery of new molecules. His lab develops platform technologies and workflows with relevance to drug discovery, chemical synthesis, and materials science. Coley earned a BS in chemical engineering from Caltech, and a PhD in chemical engineering from MIT.
Selected Publications
- Graff, D., Pyzer‐Knapp, E. O., Jordan, K. E., Shakhnovich, E. I., & Coley, C. W. (2023). Evaluating the roughness of structure–property relationships using pretrained molecular representations. Digital Discovery, 2(5), 1452–1460.
- Qian, Y., Li, Z., Tu, Z., Coley, C. & Barzilay, R. (2023). Predictive Chemistry Augmented with Text Retrieval. Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, pages 12731–12745.
- Graff, D.E., Aldeghi, M., Morrone, J.A., Jordan, K.E., Pyzer-Knapp, E.O., Coley, C.W. (2022). Self-Focusing Virtual Screening with Active Design Space Pruning. Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling 2022 62 (16), 3854-3862 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jcim.2c00554
Media
- August 8, 2019: MIT News, Guided by AI, robotic platform automates molecule manufacture.
- November 28, 2018: Forbes, 30 Under 30 – Healthcare 2019.
- August 20, 208: Chemical & Engineering News, Machine-learning maestro is reprogramming the way chemists design drugs.