Prof. Ferguson’s work as a faculty mentor in the Illinois Promise program was featured in an article in Inside Illinois 34 (3) (Aug 7, 2014). The Illinois Promise (I-Promise) program …
Greg will deliver a contributed oral presentation at the Institute of Physics “Physics Meets Biology” conference September 3-5 2014 at Oxford University, Oxford, UK. He will discuss his recent work …
Prof. Ferguson delivered a presentation at the 2014 Midwest Theoretical Chemistry Conference at Northwestern University on the application of physical chemical models and statistical mechanics in modeling Hepatitis C virus …
Prof. Ferguson is delighted to receive the American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund Doctoral New Investigator Award for his proposal entitled “Mesoscale Simulation and Machine Learning of Asphaltene Aggregation”. We …
Rachael Mansbach (Physics; B.S., Swarthmore) formally joins the Ferguson Lab. Rachael is investigating nonlinear machine learning models of the impact of molecular chemistry and environmental conditions on the structure and …
Greg Hart has been awarded a competitive graduate fellowship by the University of Illinois Computational Science and Engineering program to study the host-pathogen dynamics of hepatitis C virus infection. This …
Sam Kaufman (MatSE, sophomore) has been awarded a 2014 Computational Science and Engineering Summer Research Internship. This award is given to exceptional undergraduate students participating in the CSE Certificate Option …
Andy Long and Prof. Ferguson have published a paper in J. Phys. Chem. B in which they describe the development and validation of a new many-body machine learning algorithm capable …
Prof. Ferguson and Jiang Wang were named in the Fall 2013 List of Teachers Ranked Excellent by Their Students, Jiang as a TA for PHYS 212: Electricity and Magnetism, and …
Prof. Ferguson has received a National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award for his proposal “Teaching Machines to Design Self-Assembling Materials.” We are very excited to embark on a five year …