Connor Coley
Associate Professor
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolConnor Coley is an Associate Professor at MIT with 13 years of experience applying data and automation to accelerate discovery in the chemical sciences. He progressed rapidly through MIT’s faculty ranks after a PhD in Chemical Engineering and postdoctoral work at the Broad Institute, blending fundamental reaction engineering with computational and experimental automation. His work sits at the intersection of chemistry, process engineering, and data-driven discovery, translating lab-scale insights into scalable automated workflows. Based in Cambridge, he has industry exposure from roles at Novartis, Corning, and Schlumberger, informing a pragmatic approach to translational research. Colleagues value his ability to bridge rigorous academic research and real-world process constraints, often leveraging cross-disciplinary teams to deploy adaptive discovery platforms. He is particularly interested in how algorithmic approaches can reduce the time from hypothesis to validated chemical innovation.
13 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Chemical Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Chemical Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyCalifornia Institute of Technology
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Github Skills (33)
data-repository10
synthesis10
reactivity10
reaction10
prediction10
planning10
database10
materials-informatics9
rdkit9
chemistry9
python8
virtual-screening8
search-engine6
react5
throughput4
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
ASKCOS/ASKCOS
Jan 2016 - Jul 2020
Software package for computer aided synthesis planning
Contributions:1 release, 1 review, 1079 commits in 4 years 6 months
planningsynthesis
connorcoley/ochem_predict_nn
Mar 2017 - Feb 2018
Contributions:11 commits, 1 PR, 6 pushes in 11 months
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