Computational Chemistry & Machine Learning (CCML) Lab

Research

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Machine Learning

We use machine learning (ML) techniques to construct models for various databases/problems related to chemistry, biology, and physics. Machine learning is used in molecular reaction dynamics for systems consisting of only a few atoms to protein-ligand/DNA/RNA binding, and local structure determination in solid/liquid-like systems consisting of a few hundred to thousands of atoms or particles. Multidimensional potential energy surfaces for polyatomic molecules are constructed using Gaussian process regression (GPR), kernel ridge regression (KRR), and artificial neural networks (ANN) methods for studying reaction dynamics or spectroscopy. ANN based models are generated to predict different reaction observables e.g., reaction probabilities, cross sections, rates, and distributions of products.  Binding between protein and DNA/RNA or ligands are being studied using different supervised ML algorithms (Random forest, support vector machine, ANN, convolutional neural network (CNN)). ML based models  (Random forest, Support vector machines) are constructed to diagnosis various diseases using mass spectra obtained from affected tissues or blood samples. Characterization of different phases in the heterogeneous medium is performed using dimensionality reduction techniques (Autoencoders, Principal component analysis, t-SNE) and unsupervised ML based clustering algorithms (Agglomerative clustering, DBSCAN) and Gaussian mixtures model.


Quantum and Classical Reaction Dynamics

We study different elementary chemical reactions using exact quantum mechanical and quasiclassical simulation methods to elucidate the underlying mechanisms and predict the outcomes of the reactions. Highly accurate analytical potential energy surfaces (PES) are constructed from ab initio energies and quantum or classical equations of motions are then solved on those PESs to calculate the reaction probabilities, integral and differential cross sections, rate constants, and branching ratios.

Molecular Spectroscopy

Ro-vibrational states of small molecules are computed by solving time independent or time dependent Schrödinger equation on potential energy surfaces based on high level ab initio energies. Effect of solvent medium are also investigated following a quantum mechanics/molecular mechanics (QM/MM) type simulations.

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