{"675421":{"#nid":"675421","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Chemist David Sherrill Elected Member of International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003ERegents\u2019 Professor\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/chemistry.gatech.edu\/people\/david-sherrill\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EDavid Sherrill\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E has been elected to join the International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science as a member. Sherrill holds joint appointments with the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/chemistry.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Chemistry and Biochemistry\u003C\/a\u003E and the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/cse.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Computational Science and Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u201cIt is an honor to join this prestigious scientific organization,\u201d says Sherrill, who also serves as associate director of the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/research.gatech.edu\/data\u0022\u003EInstitute for Data Engineering Science\u003C\/a\u003E. \u201cThe members are the very top experts in quantum chemistry from around the world.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003ESherrill\u2019s research is at the intersection of chemistry, algorithms, and data science. His research group leverages advances in machine learning to develop tools for modeling data from quantum mechanical computations. These tools can be applied to chemical problems like drug discovery and crystal engineering. The research group makes its methods and algorithms publicly available through the open-source quantum chemistry program\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/psicode.org\/\u0022\u003EPsi4\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003ESherrill received his Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of Georgia and joined Georgia Tech in 1999 after having served as a National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley. He has received numerous distinctions throughout his career and is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Chemical Society, and the American Physical Society. Sherrill has been associate editor of the\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EJournal of Chemical Physics\u003C\/em\u003E since 2009.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003ELearn more about Sherrill\u2019s research\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/vergil.chemistry.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003Ehere\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch3\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbout the International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science (IAQMS)\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EEstablished in Menton, France in 1967, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.iaqms.org\/index.php\u0022\u003EIAQMS\u003C\/a\u003E is an international scientific society that covers the application of quantum theory, including chemistry and chemical physics. It is composed of scientists from around the world who have contributed to the advancement of quantum molecular science. The organization boasts 14 Nobel Prize laureates among its current and past members.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ESherrill holds joint appointments with the School of Chemistry and Biochemistry and the School of Computational Science and Engineering. He also serves as associate director of the Institute for Data Engineering Science.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Sherrill holds joint appointments with the School of Chemistry and Biochemistry and the School of Computational Science and Engineering. 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