Alexei A. Lapkin is a co-founder of CDI and its CSO. He holds the position of Professor of Sustainable Reaction Engineering at the University of Cambridge. His research group is working on developing sustainable methods of chemical synthesis and manufacture. He is also a co-Director of Cambridge Centre for Advanced Research and Education in Singapore Ltd (CARES).
Zhen Guo is a co-founder of CDI and is a Technology Director at CDI. He obtained his PhD in Chemical Engineering from Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. With 9 years of experience in both industry and academia, Zhen has experiences in heterogeneous catalysis, organic synthesis, flow chemistry, DoE and machine learning. He focuses on development of in silico solutions for industrial challenges through chemoinformatics, data mining, and machine learning.
Igor Lobanov is a software engineer with 20+ years of experience in the industry. Throughout his career he worked in a variety of sectors such as telecommunications, financial services, and logistics. Igor specializes in helping organizations to modernize and digitize their product development, sales, customer service, and operations with cutting edge technology.
Adarsh Arun obtained his B.Eng in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering from the National University of Singapore (2016–2019), followed by an MPhil in Advanced Chemical Engineering (2020–2021) and PhD (2021–2025) from the University of Cambridge. His doctoral research developed a knowledge graph framework for the biowaste-to-chemicals domain, encompassing knowledge acquisition from literature using LLMs and RAG, schema development across biowaste sources, feedstocks, pretreatment processes, and chemical reactions, as well as data enrichment methods including impurity prediction and reaction completion. At CDI, he is a senior scientist working at the intersection of chemoinformatics, machine learning, agentic AI, and data engineering for chemistry, leading the development of CDI’s core software products.
Laura Pascazio completed her PhD at Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II. She previously worked at Cambridge Centre for Advanced Research and Education in Singapore (CARES Ltd). At CDI Laura is a Senior Scientists responsible for process modelling and machine learning for process design.
Reina Zheng is an applied machine learning engineer at CDI working on agentic systems. She completed her MEng and BA in Chemical Engineering from the University of Cambridge, where her research focused on the surrogate modelling of polymer-solvent systems via graph-based neural networks.
Selvam Marimuthu is a Senior Infrastructure and Cloud Engineer with over 15 years of experience spanning hybrid infrastructure, cloud platforms and DevOps. He helps organisations modernise their platforms by improving reliability, scalability, and operational efficiency, leveraging cloud-native technologies, Kubernetes, and intelligent automation to build resilient, future-ready systems.
Kez Lee is a hybrid UX designer and frontend developer working on digital tools for chemical products and process design. Her work focuses on the design and implementation of user-centred interfaces for complex chemical engineering workflows, including data-driven applications, interactive visualisation, and decision-support systems. This involves translating models, simulations, and sustainability metrics into usable frontend systems that enable efficient design, analysis, and optimisation of chemical products and processes.
Jonathan Lim earned his Computer Science degree from Nanyang Technological University. At CDI, he collaborates with his team to drive the digitisation of chemical reactor systems as a backend engineer. He designs and operates secure, scalable backend platforms and develops machine-learning–enabled analytics to support simulation, calibration, and data-driven optimisation of chemical processes. With seven years of experience spanning full-stack engineering, system architecture, DevOps, and operational workflows, Jonathan translates complex research requirements into reliable, production-grade systems. He prioritises safety, efficiency, and reducing chemical waste.
Anastasiia Tikhonova completed her PhD at the National University of Singapore and is currently a Senior Scientist at CDI. Her work focuses on developing chemoinformatics tools and machine learning models for chemical and pharmaceutical research.