Jacques Esterhuizen
PhD Candidate
Contact Information
Email: esterhui@umich.edu
Phone: (734) 647-8051
Office: B28-1028E NCRC
Education
PhD in progress
Chemical Engineering
University of Michigan
BS May 2017
Chemical Engineering
University of Southern California
Publications
Interpretable machine learning for knowledge generation in
heterogeneous catalysis.
J.A. Esterhuizen, B.R. Goldsmith, S. Linic, Nature Catalysis, 2022.
Uncovering electronic and geometric descriptors of chemical activity for metal alloys and oxides
using unsupervised machine learning.
J.A. Esterhuizen, B.R. Goldsmith, S. Linic, Chem Catalysis, 2021.
Theory-Guided Machine Learning Finds Geometric Structure-Property Relationships for
Chemisorption on Subsurface Alloys.
J.A. Esterhuizen, B.R. Goldsmith and S. Linic, Chem, 2020.
Honors & Awards
- Richard F. and Eleanor A. Towner Prize for Distinguished Academic Achievement in Chemical Engineering, 2022.
- University of Michigan ChE Excellence in Research Award, 2021.
- 2nd Place Oral Presentation at the University of Michigan Chemical Engineering Graduate Symposium, 2021.
- J. Robert Beyster Computational Innovation Graduate Fellowship, 2020.
- AIChE Catalysis and Reaction Engineering Division Travel Award, 2020.