Modern Computational Tools for Chemistry with Corin Wagen

Corin Wagen is the Founder and CEO of Rowan. During our conversation, we talk about Corin's journey from the Jacobsen Lab at Harvard to starting Rowan with his brother. Rowan builds design and simulation software for chemistry.

The company uses machine learning on quantum mechanics data to predict molecular interactions with high accuracy. Rowan trains its models on internal data and information from publicly available datasets. The key part of the product is reducing the time to make these predictions. Legacy, often on-prem, software can take weeks of computing to calculate, say the pKa or redox potential of a compound. Rowan uses machine learning to speed up these predictions with comparable accuracy.

Rowan’s vision is to make their tools accessible to all types of chemists and scientists, not just experts in particular areas of computational chemistry. Making computational chemistry as easy to use as Uber, Venmo, or ChatGPT. Simplifying complex calculations like reaction prediction, property estimation, and data analysis. With 100s of chemists using Rowan.