A New Direction

This past week, I scheduled more interviews and changed how I plan on going about my original work. On Friday, I interviewed Professor Cisneros of UNT about computational chemistry. I learned that the field involves more theoretical work than I expected, like solving the Schrodinger equation. Depending on the project, they may incorporate a dataset empirically into an force field, but it still involves less pure machine learning than I anticipated. I also altered my original work so that instead of only training two models and comparing them, I would break down the components of a chemical machine learning model so that anyone can understand it through interaction. This would work through a website that would have elements like sliders to let anyone experiment with machine learning design. Though this will take more time, I’m excited to develop it because I think my audience for research showcase would enjoy it a lot more. In addition, I have two more interviews with professors of computational chemistry. I’m looking forward to having more perspectives from whom to learn about the field and to seek a mentor. This week, I plan to continue developing the website for my original work and learning more through my research and interviews.