Chowdhury Ashraf is a postdoctoral research associate in Chemical Engineering at University of Washington. He completed his PhD from The Pennsylvania State University and MS from University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, both in Mechanical Engineering. In EDSI, Chowdhury is working with Prof. Jim Pfaendtner and Prof. Dave Beck while focusing on discovery of chemical descriptors using deep learning models that lead to highly selective properties for the engineering of novel synthetic materials.