ryan richard

Ryan M. Richard

Pronouns
he/him/his
Position
  • Assistant Adjunct Professor
  • Ames Scientist II
Department
  • Ames Laboratory Of US DOE
  • Chemistry
We develop fast, sustainable software for simulating chemical reactions.

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Education

  • 2004 - 2008. B.S. Cleveland State University
  • 2008 - 2013. PhD. The Ohio State University
  • 2014 - 2017. PostDoc. Georgia Institute of Technology
  • 2017 - 2018. Postdoc. Ames Laboratory

Affiliations

Ryan received his PhD from The Ohio State University working with Professor John Herbert on fragment-based methods. After obtaining his PhD, Ryan went on to two postdocs, first  with Professor C. David Sherrill working on Psi4, and then with Professor Theresa Windus working on NWChemEx. 

Ryan's research interests include fragment-based methods, linear scaling ab initio methods, high accuracy calculations, scientific software development, and machine learning. Ryan is presently the chief architect/designer and developer of NWChemEx.