Brook Wander
Doctoral Researcher at Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
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Top SchoolBrook Wander is a Doctoral Researcher and Chemical Engineering PhD candidate at Carnegie Mellon University specializing in computational catalyst discovery for sustainable energy in Professor John Kitchin’s group. With five years of research and industry experience, Brook blends rigorous modeling and data-driven simulation with practical process engineering from prior roles at Apeel Sciences and UCLA. A 2023 AI research intern at Meta, Brook uniquely bridges data science, machine learning, and chemical engineering to accelerate materials discovery. Their background includes hands-on experimental work on adsorption and nanocrystal synthesis, giving them a rare combination of computational skill and lab intuition. Based in Pittsburgh, they focus on deploying computational workflows that shorten the path from theory to experimentally validated catalysts.
5 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Chemical Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Chemical Engineering at Carnegie Mellon UniversityBachelor’s Degree, Chemical Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree, Chemical Engineering at University of California, Los Angeles
Github Skills (19)
computational-chemistry10
materials-informatics10
chemistry10
science9
energy8
catalyst8
parallelization8
genomics7
bioinformatics6
python6
chemical-engineering5
combinatorics5
catalysis4
code-analysis3
throughput3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
brookwander/crystaltoolkit
Nov 2021 - Dec 2022
Crystal Toolkit is an interactive web app that allows you to import, view, analyze and transform crystal structures and molecules, including a suite of reusable web components to make your own materials science web apps. Project led by @mkhorton.
Contributions:10 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 1 month
moleculessciencetransformcrystalled
brookwander/Open-Catalyst-Dataset
Jan 2022 - Nov 2022
Workflow for creating and analyzing the Open Catalyst Dataset
Contributions:1 PR, 3 pushes, 2 branches in 9 months
analyzingdatasetopen-sciencedatasetscatalyst
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