Connor Coley is the Class of 1957 Career Development Professor and an Associate Professor at MIT in the Department of Chemical Engineering and the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. His research group combines expertise in chemical engineering, computer science, and chemistry to improve the utility of computer-assistance for chemical discovery. The majority of the research is computational; however, Coley maintains a strong interest in laboratory automation as applied to testing computational hypotheses, validating model predictions, and generating high-fidelity experimental data. He develops platform technologies and workflows with relevance to drug discovery, chemical synthesis, and materials science

Coley received his BS in Chemical Engineering from Caltech and his PhD in Chemical Engineering MIT. He is a recipient of C&EN’s “Talented Twelve” award, Forbes Magazine’s “30 Under 30” for Healthcare, Technology Review’s 35 Innovators Under 35, the NSF CAREER award, the ACS COMP OpenEye Outstanding Junior Faculty Award, the Bayer Early Excellence in Science Award, the 3M NTFA, and was named a Schmidt AI2050 Early Career Fellow, a 2023 Samsung AI Researcher of the Year, and a Scialog Fellow (Automating Chemical Laboratories).