The worst part of being an advisor is saying goodbye to great students. Thank you Margaret and Keira for spending the summer with us as REU students. Also a big thank you to @harshd1611.bsky.social and Sudipta for mentioning these two wonderful people in the lab!

Group retreat at Olbrich Botanical Gardens

Hot from the press in Chemical Engineering Journal (CEJ): accelerating catalyst discovery with data-driven techniques.  Using Bayesian optimization, we efficiently navigate over 1 million possible formulations of Pt catalysts to accelerate serendipity 👉🏻 lnkd.in/gJKFpE3n

Although we were a few people short, we had a great group holiday party. We also celebrated the exceptional contributions by some group members with the Golden Thumbs Ups (Harsh, Fillipp, Faysal and Matias, shown below)