🪴 Cody Aldaz

A driven and passionate scientist with a strong foundation in chemistry, data science, algorithms, and machine learning. I excel at employing creative solutions to complex problems while maintaining a focus on both team and individual success. My objective is to bridge the gap between chemistry and computer science to solve real world problems.

Interests:

• Computers
• Mentorship
• Motorcycling
• Machine-Learning

Computational Chemist

• Stanford Science Fellow (postdoc) in Martinez Lab (2020-Present)
  
• Stanford Artificial Intelligence Professional Certificate
• PhD in Chemistry from University of Michigan in Zimmerman Lab (2015-2020)
  
• B.S. in Chemistry from the University of New Mexico
  

• Invited Seminar at IBM Zurich on Graph Theoretical Methods to Predict Molecular Reactions and Mechanisms
  
• Invited talk for Synthesis Supergroup at Stanford -> Slides
  (TODO)
• Invited talk at World Association of Theoretical Chemistry (WATOC2020)
  
• Attended RL Summer School at Vrjie University in Amsterdam
• Featured in Los Altos Town Crier for Mentorship

• 🔗Reaction Template Studio🔗
  • ▶️ Video ▶️
• NMR Transformers
• Photocycloaddition of Tethered Arene Alkenes

• Elisa Pieri, Dean Lahana, Alexander M. Chang, Cody R. Aldaz, Keiran Thompson, and Todd Martinez, The non-adiabatic nanoreactor: towards the automated discovery of photochemistry, Chemical Science 2021
• Cody Aldaz, Ted Wiley, Nicholas A. Miller, Kenneth G. Spears, Nawodi Abeyrathna, Yi Liao, Paul Zimmerman, Roseanne Sension, Experimental and theoretical characterization of ultrafast water-soluble photochromic photoacids The Journal of Physical Chemistry B 2021, 125, 16, 4120–4131
• Cody Aldaz, Todd Martinez, Paul Zimmerman, The Mechanics of Bicycle Pedal Photoisomerization in Crystalline Cis,Cis-1,4-diphenyl-1,3-butadiene, The Journal Of Physical Chemistry A, 2020, 124, 8897−8906
• Cody Aldaz, Ted Wiley, Nicholas A. Miller, Kenneth G. Spears, Nawodi Abeyrathna, Yi Liao, Paul Zimmerman, Roseanne Sension, Experimental and theoretical characterization of ultrafast water-soluble photochromic photoacids The Journal of Physical Chemistry B 2021, 125, 16, 4120–4131
• Cody Aldaz, Josh Kammeraad, Paul Zimmerman. Discovery of conical intersection mediated photochemistry with growing string methods. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 20, 27394-27405, 2018
• Jian Gao, Alan K. Thomas, Jianzhong Yang, Cody Aldaz, Guoshun Yang, Yang Qin, John K. Grey Polythienylene-vinylene Structure-Function Correlations Revealed from Resonance Raman Spectroscopy and Photocurrent Imaging. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C., vol. 119, 8980, 2015