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<h1><b>Group Alumni and Past Visitors</b></h1><br>
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<h2><b>Former Postdocs</b></h2><br>
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<h3>Dr. Daeho Han</h3>
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Department of Chemistry<br>
Natural Sciences Building (108) 805<br>
Ulsan National Institute of Science & Technology<br>
Ulsan, 44919, S. Korea<br><br>
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<b>Email: </b><a href="mailto:">daehohan AT unist.ac.kr</a><br>
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Daeho Han was born in Seoul, South Korea, in 1995. He earned his BS in Chemistry from Ajou University in 2017 and obtained his Ph.D in Chemistry from Ulsan National Institute of Science & Technology (UNIST). With guidance of Prof. Seung Kyu Min at UNIST, Daeho delved into nonadiabatic molecular dynamics (NA-MD) methods based on exact factorization (XF). He became one of developers of PyUNIxMD, a Python-based NA-MD software of the Min's group, and worked on developing new NA-MD methods tailored for extended and condensed systems, culminating in his thesis titled "Theoretical and Computational Description of Excited-state Phenomena in Condensed Phase." In October 2023, Daeho joined the Akimov group as a postdoctoral associate. First, he implemented and assessed trajectory-based NA-MD algorithms such as independent-trajectory XF methods (SHXF, MQCXF, EhXF), Quantum-Trajectory Surface Hopping (QTSH) and other internal algorithms, directly contributing to the Libra platform with his Python and C++ programming skills. Regarding the XF-based methods, he served as the main instructor at the Libra Workshop and Summer School in 2024. Furthermore, for simulating large-scale systems, he developed the Fully-Integrated Surface Hopping (FISH) method based on the neglect of backreaction approximation. Except for the trajectory-based algorithms, he also worked on the Local Diabatic Representation (LDR) dynamics method using the PyTorch features. Following his term at Buffalo, he has continued his career as a postdoctoral researcher at UNIST, appointed by the AI-CRED (AI Co-Research & Education for Innovative Drug) institute, S. Korea.
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<h3>Dr. Nijamudheen Abdulrahiman</h3>
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<b>Mailing address:</b><br>
Department of Chemistry<br>
Natural Sciences Complex 726<br>
University at Buffalo, The State University of New York<br>
Buffalo, NY 14260-3000, USA<br><br>
<b>Tel.: 716-445-4436</b><br>
<b>Email: </b><a href="mailto:">anijamud at buffalo dot edu</a><br>
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Nijamudheen is from Kerala, one of the southern states in India. He obtained his BSc degree (2008) in Chemistry from the Calicut
University and MSc degree (2010) in Applied Chemistry from the Cochin University of Science And Technology (CUSAT). His thesis work for
the master’s degree was guided by <a target="_new" href="http://www.iacs.res.in/spectro/spad/index.html">Professor Ayan Datta</a> in the
<a target="_new" href="http://www.iisertvm.ac.in/">Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Thirvananthapuram.</a>
Then, he remained in the same group and started his doctoral studies. In 2012, he moved with the Datta group to the
<a target="_new" href="http://www.iacs.res.in/">Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science (IACS) in Kolkata</a> and received his
PhD degree in 2015. His PhD thesis was on the “Computational Study of Structures and Electronic Properties of Metal Clusters”.
He is a postdoctoral research associate in the group of Professor Alexey Akimov since January 2016. Nijam's present projects involve
modeling electron and hole relaxation and recombination in 2D materials and in perovskites.
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<h3>Dr. Ekadashi Pradhan</h3>
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<b>Mailing address:</b><br>
Department of Chemistry<br>
Natural Sciences Complex 727<br>
University at Buffalo, The State University of New York<br>
Buffalo, NY 14260-3000, USA<br><br>
<b>Tel.: </b><br>
<b>Email: </b><a href="mailto:">ekadashi at buffalo dot edu</a><br>
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Ekadashi Pradhan was born and grew up in Midnapur, West Bengal, India. He received his B.Sc. in 2008 in Chemistry (Honours)
from <a href="http://www.rkmcnarendrapur.org/43-Department%20of%20Chemistry" target="_new">The Department of Chemistry, Ramakrishna Mission Residential College,
Narendrapur, University of Calcutta</a>, Kolkata, India.
He obtained his M.Sc. in Chemistry from <a href="http://www.chem.iitb.ac.in/" target="_new">The Department of Chemistry, IIT-Bombay</a>, Mumbai,
India in the year 2010. His M.Sc.
thesis “System Size Dependence of Solvation Structures of NaCl in Water-DMSO Mixtures” was supervised by
<a href="http://www.chem.iitb.ac.in/~bltembe/index.html" target="_new">Prof. B. L. Tembe</a>.
Then he moved to Edmonton, Canada where he received his Ph.D. in December, 2015 from <a href="https://uofa.ualberta.ca/chemistry/" target="_new">The Department
of Chemistry, University of Alberta</a> under the guidance of <a href="http://alexbrown.chem.ualberta.ca/" target="_new">Prof. Alex Brown</a>.
His Ph.D. thesis is titled as “Potential Energy Surfaces for Quantum Dynamics Simulations: From ab initio Computations to Vibrational State
Determinations”. From January 2016, he is pursuing postdoctoral research on “Non-adiabatic Quantum Dynamics for Large Systems”
in Prof. Alexey Akimov’s group at SUNY-Buffalo. His is presently developing the Libra-QE interface and the delta-SCF methodology for simulating
photoinduced isomerization in organic molecules.
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<h2><b>Former Graduate Students</b></h2><br>
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<h3>Mr. Mohammad Shakiba</h3>
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<b>Mailing address:</b><br>
Department of Chemistry<br>
Natural Sciences Complex 727<br>
University at Buffalo, The State University of New York<br>
Buffalo, NY 14260-3000, USA<br><br>
<b>Tel.: </b>716-645-4141<br>
<b>Email: </b><a href="mailto:">mshakiba.kerman.iran@gmail.com</a><br>
<b>Profiles:</b>
<a target="_blank" href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/mohammad-shakiba-0866b4347/">LinkedIn</a>
| <a target="_blank" href="https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4110-7627">ORCID</a>
| <a target="_blank" href="https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Mohammad-Shakiba-3">ResearchGate</a>
| <a target="_blank" href="https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=M7gnyyMAAAAJ&hl=en">GoogleScholar</a>
| <a target="_blank" href="https://mohammadshakiba.github.io/">Personal Webpage</a>
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Mohammad Shakiba was born in Kerman, Iran in 1995. He graduated with a BA in Civil Engineering from
Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman (SBUK) in 2017. During his time in SBUK, Mohammad
worked on a project studying the effect of nanomaterials on concrete properties in
<a target="_blank" href="https://depeng.uk.ac.ir/~rahgozar">Prof. Reza Rahgozar</a> group. In 2018, he started his MS in SBUK in Nanomaterials Engineering
which is a branch of Materials Science Engineering. During his MS, he collaborated with
<a target="_blank" href="https://depeng.uk.ac.ir/~khayati">Prof. Gholam Reza Khayati</a>,
<a target="_blank" href="https://depeng.uk.ac.ir/~irannejhad">Prof. Ahmad Irannejad</a>, and
<a target="_blank" href="https://depeng.uk.ac.ir/~sh_sharafi">Prof. Shahriar Sharafi</a> investigating the properties of CdSe and CdS quantum dots
using density functional theory and predicting the size of nano-hydroxyapatite using machine learning techniques.
In May 2020, Mohammad started working in Prof. Alexey V. Akimov's group remotely from Iran. During this time,
he collaborated with Prof. Akimov's group interfacing the Libra code with different quantum chemistry codes such as CP2K, Gaussian,
and DFTB+ leading to publication of two papers studying the role of many-body effects in hot carrier cooling dynamics in nanomaterials.
In May 2021, Mohammad started working on interfacing Libra with Libint code which can compute the overlap integrals in Gaussian type orbital basis.
This new tool enabled studying hot carrier dynamics in large scale nanomaterials and periodic solids with thousands of atoms using
extended tight-binding (xTB) approach. In Fall 2022, he started his Ph.D. in the group of Prof. Alexey V. Akimov at The State University of New York at Buffalo.
Since Fall 2022 as a Ph.D. student, Mohammad published 5 first author and 2 second author research papers in the field of nonadiabatic molecular dynamics.
He has also participated in multiple conferences. He has several experiences as helper, instructor, and coorganizer of multiple workshops held
at University at Buffalo on nonadiabatic molecular dynamics and machine-learning. <br>
Mohammad has passed his synopsis titled "Advancing Methodologies in Nonadiabatic Molecular Dynamics Simulations for Large-Scale Systems"
and is currently a Ph.D. candidate. Read more about the details of Mohammad's work in his
<a target="_blank" href="https://mohammadshakiba.github.io/">personal webpage</a>.
Mohammad graduated from the group obtaining his PhD degree in computational chemisty in May 2026.
He started his postdoctoral position in UB Merced with Prof. Christine Isborn on June 1st, 2026.
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<h3>Mr. Qingxin Zhang</h3>
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<b>Mailing address:</b><br>
Department of Chemistry<br>
Natural Sciences Complex 726<br>
University at Buffalo, The State University of New York<br>
Buffalo, NY 14260-3000, USA<br><br>
<b>Tel.: </b><br>
<b>Email: </b><a href="mailto:">qingxinz@buffalo.edu</a><br>
<b>Profiles:</b>
<a target="_blank" href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/qingxin-zhang-490295173/">LinkedIn</a>
| <a target="_blank" href="">ResearcherID</a>
| <a target="_blank" href="https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Qingxin-Zhang-12">ResearchGate</a>
| <a target="_blank" href="https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=uffSB-4AAAAJ&hl=en">GoogleScholar</a>
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Qingxin Zhang was born in Qidong, Jiangsu province, China. He graduated with a BS in chemistry and a minor in chemical engineering
from the Miami University (Oxford) in Ohio. During his time at Oxford, Qingxin had the opportunity to work on paper mechanics under
the guidance of Dr. Douglas W. Coffin. The projects were to investigate different tensile, compression, and heat gear mesh tests and used the software BlueHill
to model various paper strengths in order to find the hardest fiber range in the different paper categories.
As of Fall 2020, Qingxin attended The State University of New York at Buffalo, SUNY and was pursuing his master’s degree under
the guidance of Dr. Michel Dupuis and applied first principal software CP2K to model the photocatalytic material’s electrical structure information and
look for the optimized structures. In the fall of 2022, Qingxin began his journey towards a PhD and has been working in TDDFT theoretical computing. His research ranges from photochemistry to the development of theoretical and computational methods.
His research focuses on non-adiabatic molecular dynamics with applied systems, with a future focus on machine learning.
Qingxin graduated from the group obtaining his PhD degree in computational chemisty in May 2026.
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<b>Mailing address:</b><br>
Department of Chemistry<br>
Natural Sciences Complex 727<br>
University at Buffalo, The State University of New York<br>
Buffalo, NY 14260-3000, USA<br><br>
<b>Tel.: </b><br>
<b>Email: </b><a href="mailto:">bsmith24 at buffalo.edu</a><br>
<b>Profiles:</b>
<a target="_blank" href="">LinkedIn</a>
| <a target="_blank" href="">ResearcherID</a>
| <a target="_blank" href="">ResearchGate</a>
| <a target="_blank" href="">GoogleScholar</a>
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Brendan Smith was born in Buffalo, New York, and grew up in Rochester, New York. He graduated with a BA in chemistry
from the <a href="http://www.geneseo.edu/" target="_new">State University of New York at Geneseo</a>. During his time at
Geneseo, Brendan had the privilege to work on two research projects under the guidance of
<a href="https://www.geneseo.edu/chemistry/jeffrey_peterson" target="_new">Dr. Jeffery Peterson</a>. The projects were to
investigate green aqueous solubilization schemes for CdSe core quantum dots, their ability to image Escherichia coli.,
and the determination of the extinction coefficients of in house synthesized CdSe/CdS core/shell quantum dots.
As of Fall 2016, Brendan attends The State University of New York at Buffalo, SUNY and is pursuing his PhD under the guidance
of Prof. Alexey Akimov. He currently in his 4th year of his Ph.D and has worked on several research projects to date. His research
ranges from developing methods for treating quantum nuclear effects in molecular dynamics simulations, to developing non-adiabatic
molecular dynamics methods. For the latter, his focus is on non-adiabatic molecular dynamics within the neglect-of-back-reaction approximation.
His orcid is http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3460-9984
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<b>Mailing address:</b><br>
Department of Chemistry<br>
Natural Sciences Complex 726<br>
University at Buffalo, The State University of New York<br>
Buffalo, NY 14260-3000, USA<br><br>
<b>Tel.: </b><br>
<b>Email: </b><a href="mailto:">mahsajab at buffalo dot edu</a><br>
<b>Profiles:</b>
<a target="_blank" href="">LinkedIn</a>
| <a target="_blank" href="">ResearcherID</a>
| <a target="_blank" href="">ResearchGate</a>
| <a target="_blank" href="">GoogleScholar</a>
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Mahsa Jabbar was born and grew up in Tehran, Iran. She obtained her B.Sc. degree (2006-2010) in Chemistry and her M.Sc. (2011-2014)
from Azad University Central Tehran Branch. Her M.Sc. thesis "Use of GC-MS combined with chemometrics to characterize and to compare the essential
oil components of different types of Cardamom" was supervised by Prof. Elaheh Konoz.
Then, She moved to University of Louisville, Louisville, KY to continue her education (2015-2017) and joined
<a target="_blank"; href="https://louisville.edu/chemistry/faculty/richard-j.-wittebort">Prof. Richard Wittebort research group</a>,
the project was NMR studies of structure and dynamics of intrinsically disordered proteins. In fall 2017 started her PhD and joined
Prof. Alexey Akimov group at SUNY-Buffalo. She is currently involved in projects about superconductors.
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<!-- Graduate Student: Story Temen -->
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<b>Mailing address:</b><br>
Department of Chemistry<br>
Natural Sciences Complex 726<br>
University at Buffalo, The State University of New York<br>
Buffalo, NY 14260-3000, USA<br><br>
<b>Tel.: </b><br>
<b>Email: </b><a href="mailto:">storytem at buffalo dot edu</a><br>
<b>Profiles:</b>
<a target="_blank" href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/story-temen-100244197/">LinkedIn</a>
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Story Temen received her Bachelor of Science in Chemistry and Biochemistry from Kutztown Univeristy in Kutztown, Pennsylvania in 2019.
While enrolled at Kutztown University, she conducted research related to organic synthesis, pesticide detection, and luminescence lifetime.
She started her Ph.D studies and joined the Akimov group at UB in fall of 2019.
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<h2><b>Master Students</b></h2><br>
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No at the present time
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<b>Mailing address:</b><br>
Department of Chemistry<br>
Natural Sciences Complex 726<br>
University at Buffalo, The State University of New York<br>
Buffalo, NY 14260-3000, USA<br><br>
<b>Tel.: 7163480769</b><br>
<b>Email: </b><a href="mailto:">anarzhan at buffalo dot edu</a><br>
<b>Profiles:</b>
<a target="_blank" href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/anarzhan-abilgazy-18a01093/">LinkedIn</a>
| <a target="_blank" href="">ResearcherID</a>
| <a target="_blank" href="">ResearchGate</a>
| <a target="_blank" href="">GoogleScholar</a>
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Anarzhan Abilgazy was born in Karaganda region, Kazakhstan, and grew up in Astana, Kazakhstan. She obtained her B.Sc. in Physics
and a minor in Mathematics, and a minor in World languages, Literature and Culture from Nazarbayev University, Astana, Kazakhstan (2017).
During her undergraduate studies, she joined <a target="_blank" href="http://sergiybubin.org/group.html">the research group of Prof. Sergiy Bubin</a>
and worked on her B.Sc. thesis "Evaluation of mass-velocity relativistic correction in variational calculations with explicitly correlated Gaussian
basis functions with L=1 total orbital angular momentum". She is one of the founders of Poetry club at Nazarbayev University.
In 2017, she started her PhD at SUNY-Buffalo, where she is a member of Prof. Alexey Akimov’s research group.
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<h2><b>Former Master Students</b></h2><br>
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<b>Mailing address:</b><br>
Department of Chemistry<br>
Natural Sciences Complex 726<br>
University at Buffalo, The State University of New York<br>
Buffalo, NY 14260-3000, USA<br><br>
<b>Tel.: 716-444-1283</b><br>
<b>Email: </b><a href="mailto:">niyazpor at buffalo dot edu</a><br>
<b>Profiles:</b>
<a target="_blank" href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/niyaz-pordel-96359831">LinkedIn</a>
| <a target="_blank" href="">ResearcherID</a>
| <a target="_blank" href="">ResearchGate</a>
| <a target="_blank" href="">GoogleScholar</a>
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Niyaz Pordel was born and grew up in Shiraz,Iran. She received her B.A in Chemistry (Honors) from The Department of Chemistry,
University at Buffalo, Buffalo,NY (Aug 2012-May 2015). During her undergrad she was a founder of Persian Student Association UB Club (PerSA),
University at Buffalo, and president of (PerSA), University at Buffalo Aug 2013 – Aug 2014. She got research award from
“Center for Undergraduate Research and Creative Activities at UB” (CURCA) for her research about “Povidone-Iodine and Nano-Calcium Sulfate:
Potential as a Bone Scaffold with Antimicrobial Properties” under supervising Dr.Dziak (Feb 2013-Dec 2014). In January 2016 started her
Master in chemistry and research under the guidance of Prof. Alexey Akimov group at SUNY-Buffalo. She is currently involved in modeling
electron-phonon coupling in C<sub>60</sub> on Au vs CaF<sub>2</sub> surfaces, for understanding the pecularities of the sum-frequency generation
spectra obtained by our experimentalist collaborators.
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<h2><b>Former Undergraduate Students</b></h2><br>
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<b>Mailing address:</b><br>
Department of Chemistry<br>
Natural Sciences Complex 726<br>
University at Buffalo, The State University of New York<br>
Buffalo, NY 14260-3000, USA<br><br>
<b>Tel.: </b><br>
<b>Email: </b><a href="mailto:"> samaypat at buffalo dot edu </a> <br>
<b>Profiles:</b>
<a target="_blank" href="">LinkedIn</a>
| <a target="_blank" href="">ResearcherID</a>
| <a target="_blank" href="">ResearchGate</a>
| <a target="_blank" href="">GoogleScholar</a>
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TBD
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<!-- Undergraduate Student: Kathan Dholakia -->
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<h3>Mr. Kathan Dholakia</h3>
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<b>Mailing address:</b><br>
Department of Chemistry<br>
Natural Sciences Complex 726<br>
University at Buffalo, The State University of New York<br>
Buffalo, NY 14260-3000, USA<br><br>
<b>Tel.: </b><br>
<b>Email: </b><a href="mailto:">kathandh at buffalo dot edu </a> <br>
<b>Profiles:</b>
<a target="_blank" href="">LinkedIn</a>
| <a target="_blank" href="">ResearcherID</a>
| <a target="_blank" href="">ResearchGate</a>
| <a target="_blank" href="">GoogleScholar</a>
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TBD
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<!-- Undergraduate Student: Md Fuad (Zarif) -->
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<h3>Mr. Md Fuad (Zarif)</h3>
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<b>Mailing address:</b><br>
Department of Chemistry<br>
Natural Sciences Complex 726<br>
University at Buffalo, The State University of New York<br>
Buffalo, NY 14260-3000, USA<br><br>
<b>Tel.: </b><br>
<b>Email: </b><a href="mailto:">mdfuad at buffalo dot edu </a> <br>
<b>Profiles:</b>
<a target="_blank" href="">LinkedIn</a>
| <a target="_blank" href="">ResearcherID</a>
| <a target="_blank" href="">ResearchGate</a>
| <a target="_blank" href="">GoogleScholar</a>
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TBD
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<!-- Undergraduate Student: Achira Boonrath -->
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<h3>Mr. Achira Boonrath</h3>
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<b>Mailing address:</b><br>
<b>Tel.: </b>716-730-9234<br>
<b>Email: </b><a href="mailto:">achirabo at buffalo dot edu</a><br>
<b>Profiles:</b>
<a target="_blank" href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/achira-boonrath-66b636170/">LinkedIn</a>
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Achira Boonrath was born and raised in Bangkok, Thailand. Achira attended
<a href="http://kpis.ac.th/" target="_new">KPIS International School</a> for secondary school where he represented the
school in multiple academic competitions. Achira took part in World Scholar’s Cup,
an international team-based essay writing, debating, and knowledge test competition where he won multiple honors awards.
He also competed in the International History Bee and Bowl (IHBB) Asia Division where he was invited
to compete in the 2017 IHBB Asian Championship in Singapore. Achira graduated secondary school as KPIS Class of 2018 Salutatorian.
In Fall 2018, he became an Aerospace Engineering student at the University at Buffalo. As of Spring 2019, Achira is performing
research assistantship with Brendan Smith in the Akimov Research Group. The research involves methodology development
for incorporating the quantum effects of nuclei in molecular dynamics simulation in real time. The research utilizes Python 2.7
and Libra, a Python library developed for computational chemistry.
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<!-- END OF: Undergraduate Student: Achira Boonrath -->
<!-- Undergraduate Student: Austin Sydney Cadore -->
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<h3>Mr. Austin Cadore</h3>
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<b>Mailing address:</b><br>
Department of Chemistry<br>
Natural Sciences Complex 727<br>
University at Buffalo, The State University of New York<br>
Buffalo, NY 14260-3000, USA<br><br>
<b>Tel.: </b><br>
<b>Email: </b><a href="mailto:">ascadore at buffalo dot edu</a><br>
<b>Profiles:</b>
<a target="_blank" href="">LinkedIn</a>
| <a target="_blank" href="">ResearcherID</a>
| <a target="_blank" href="">ResearchGate</a>
| <a target="_blank" href="">GoogleScholar</a>
| <a target="_blank" href="">Web Site</a>
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Austin Cadore was born in Lincoln, Nebraska in May of 1995. He currently attends the University of New York at Buffalo for a double degree
in Chemistry and Biomedical Engineering, and is on track to graduate in May of 2019. He is currently an active researcher in the Chemistry
Industrial Engineering departments. In January 2019, he joined Dr. Alexey Akimov's group at SUNY-Buffalo as an undergraduate researcher.
His current project focuses on the identification of potential mechanisms for the electron transfer reaction that constitutes the reduction of
ferritin-bound iron (III). He uses MD simulations combined with the DFTB+ and Python scription to push this project forward.
</p>
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<!-- Undergraduate Student: Sovinder Singh -->
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<h3>Mr. Sovinder Singh</h3>
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<b>Mailing address:</b> N/A<br>
<b>Tel.: </b><br>
<b>Email: </b><a href="mailto:">sovinder at buffalo.edu</a><br>
<b>Profiles:</b>
<a target="_blank" href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/sovinder-singh/">LinkedIn</a>
| <a target="_blank" href="">ResearcherID</a>
| <a target="_blank" href="">ResearchGate</a>
| <a target="_blank" href="">GoogleScholar</a>
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Sovinder Singh was born in Berkeley, California, and grew up in Buffalo, NY. He is currently in his third year of study
and in the process of obtaning a degree in Chemistry with a minor in Computer Science at SUNY-Buffalo.
Sovinder joined Prof. Alexey Akimov's research group in Spring 2018.
He is currently working on interfacing QChem electronic structure package with the Libra nonadiabatic dynamics library within
the <a target="_blank" href="https://github.com/Quantum-Dynamics-Hub/Libra-X">Libra-X project</a>. Sovinder will apply the
developed interface to study photoinduced nuclear dynamics of DNA base pairs and related compounds.
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<!-- Undergraduate Student: Anxhela Nezha -->
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<h3>Ms. Anxhela Nezha</h3>
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<b>Mailing address:</b> N/A<br>
<b>Tel.: </b><br>
<b>Email: </b><a href="mailto:">anxhelan at buffalo.edu</a><br>
<b>Profiles:</b>
<a target="_blank" href="">LinkedIn</a>
| <a target="_blank" href="">ResearcherID</a>
| <a target="_blank" href="">ResearchGate</a>
| <a target="_blank" href="">GoogleScholar</a>
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Anxhela Nezha was born in Lushnje, Albania and has lived in Buffalo, NY ever since she was 7 years old.
She is currently working towards obtaining her B.S. Biomedical Science and B.S. Medicinal Chemistry degree.
She aims to matriculate to medical school following her undergraduate career. Anxhela joined Prof. Alexey Akimov's research group in Spring 2018.
She is currently working on investigation of photoinduced phase segregation in mixed halide perovskites. In particular, she
investigates the excited-state reorganization energies and potential energy surfaces of MAPbI<sub>3-x</sub>Br<sub>x</sub> perovskites.
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<!-- Undergraduate Student: Quy Tu -->
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<h3>Ms. Quy Tu</h3>
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<b>Mailing address:</b> N/A<br>
<b>Tel.: </b><br>
<b>Email: </b><a href="mailto:">quytu at buffalo.edu</a><br>
<b>Profiles:</b>
<a target="_blank" href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/quytu">LinkedIn</a>
| <a target="_blank" href="">ResearcherID</a>
| <a target="_blank" href="">ResearchGate</a>
| <a target="_blank" href="">GoogleScholar</a>
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Quy was born in Ho Chi Minh city, Vietnam. Had graduated Seattle Central College with an A.S degree in Pre-Pharmacy and a high school diploma,
she then transferred to University at Buffalo to pursue her B.S Chemistry degree. During her undergraduate studies, she joined the research
group of Prof. Alexey Akimov in Spring 2018. Her current research focuses on investigation of how number of layers and relative position
modulate the interlayer electron transfer in stacked 2D materials by operating dynamical calculation from given coordinates
and geometries for the unit cells. This research also shows the mechanisms and kinetic of energy relaxation/charge transfer
in Biancardi’s graphene/Zn phtalocianine system.
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<!-- Undergraduate Student: Samantha Talarico -->
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<h3>Ms. Samantha Talarico</h3>
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<b>Mailing address:</b> N/A<br>
<b>Tel.: </b><br>
<b>Email: </b><a href="mailto:">smtalari at buffalo.edu</a><br>
<b>Profiles:</b>
<a target="_blank" href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/samantha-talarico-62477715a/">LinkedIn</a>
| <a target="_blank" href="">ResearcherID</a>
| <a target="_blank" href="">ResearchGate</a>
| <a target="_blank" href="">GoogleScholar</a>
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Samantha Talarico was born and raised in Rochester, NY. She is currently working
on her B.S. in Chemistry, and joined Prof. Alexey Akimov’s research group in Spring 2018.
She currently investigates surface effects in determining CdSe quantum dots' optoelectronic properties.
</p>
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<!-- Undergraduate Student: Yuhan Lin -->
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<h3>Ms. Yuhan Lin</h3>
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<b>Mailing address:</b> N/A<br>
<b>Tel.: </b><br>
<b>Email: </b><a href="mailto:">yuhanlin at buffalo dot edu</a><br>
<b>Profiles:</b>
<a target="_blank" href="">LinkedIn</a>
| <a target="_blank" href="">ResearcherID</a>
| <a target="_blank" href="">ResearchGate</a>
| <a target="_blank" href="">GoogleScholar</a>
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Yuhan Lin was born in Wenzhou, Zhejiang, China. She is a transfer student from
<a href="http://eng.njfu.edu.cn/" target="_new">Nanjing Forestry University</a>, China, where she
was a sophomore in 2014. In 2015, she joined Alexey V. Akimov's research group as a senior student.
Her research focuses on understanding the dependence of the quality of nonadiabatic molecular dynamics on the
choice of electronic structure calculation methods.
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