Songela W. Chen

I am a PhD candidate in the Limmer Group in the Department of Chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley. My research focuses on optimization of non-equilibrium systems with energy applications. Most of my PhD work so far has examined tradeoffs between accuracy, speed, and heat dissipation in logic circuits, particularly in the limit that thermal noise becomes important as devices get smaller. More recently, I am probing dynamics of energy transfer in the photosystem II supercomplex. To do this, I use techniques from stochastic thermodynamics, optimal control theory, and machine learning.

Prior to Berkeley, I worked as a Scientific Associate at D. E. Shaw Research developing better methods to predict small molecule binding free energies in computational drug discovery.

Here are my CV and publications.

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