About Michael Chen

As Simons Center Independent Postdoctoral Fellow at NYU, Michael worked with the Hocky group to study the self-assembly of ionic colloidal crystals via enhanced sampling simulations that leveraged machine-learned collective variables. He previously conducted his PhD at Stanford (advisor: Prof. Thomas Markland) where his research centered on developing and applying theory, molecular simulation, and machine learning methods for modeling condensed phase systems with a focus on analyzing different spectroscopies. Michael is now a professor at the University of Kentucky in the Departments of Chemical Engineering and Computer Science.