• Machine-learning exchange-correlation functionals
• Ion interactions in solvation through potentials of mean force.
• Solvent screening effects on ionic interactions.

• Development of a universal electron force field for molecular and electronic dynamics.
• Dielectric screening in nanoconfined water and ice.

Was a postdoctoral fellow in our group between May 2011 – March 2014.

Currently, FAPESP postdoctoral research fellow
at ICTP-SAIFR/IFT-UNESP.

Strongly correlated systems. Development and application of post-DFT methods (random phase and GW approximation). Determination of model Hamiltonians from first principles.

Dispersion interactions in DFT. Analysis and development of van der Waals density functionals. Applications of DFT to detection of elementary particles

Nuclear quantum effects in water and ice, Ferroelectric thin films PbTiO₃ – water interactions, Metal-organic frameworks: vdW interactions and lattice distortions.

Doctor
Graduated in August 2012.
Currently a postdoc at University of Maryland, College Park.
sriram.ganeshan@stonybrook.edu
https://sites.google.com/site/sriramresearch2012/

Masters Student
Graduated in September 2011.
Currently in Wurzburg, Germany.

Doctor
Graduated in December 2011.
Currently in Toulousse, France
working at Thales.

Doctor
Graduated in May 2011.
Currently in New York, USA
working at Bank of America.

Expected graduation: December 2012
with B.S. in Mathematics and Physics

Bachelor of Science
Currently a PhD student
at University of Pennsylvania