Members

Who we are


⇣ Principal Investigator

Ratul Chowdhury, PhD

Ratul Chowdhury, PhD

Assistant Professor
Chemical & Biological Engineering (CBE)
Biomedical Engineering (BME)
Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (BCB)
Ames National Laboratory (ALAB)
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⇣ Postdoc Scholars and Graduate Students

Karuna Anna Sajeevan, PhD

Postdoctoral Fellow | Email | |
Ex-Postdoc. IIT, Bombay. India
Research // MD simulations, enzyme kinetics
Loves // traveling, reading novels, gardening

Arunraj B, PhD

Postdoctoral Fellow (co a/f: Oden Institute) | Email |
PhD, BITS Pilani. India
Research // Ammonium Protein Channels
Loves // cricket, photography

Sakib Ferdous

PhD candidate, CBE | Email | |
MS Artificial Intelligence, Iowa State
Research // T-cell activation, reinforcement learning
Loves // coding

Bibek Acharya

PhD candidate, CBE | Email |
BS Energy and Chemical Engineering, UNIST, S Korea
Research // protein design, rare-earth separation
Loves // reading, music

Yee Chuen Teoh

MS candidate, Computer Science | Email |
Research // Simulation of viral escape, Monte Carlo sampling
Loves // coding, weight-lifting, badminton, basketball

Randy Aryee

PhD candidate, CBE | Email |
Research // Enzyme engineering, Generative AI

Biswaroop Maiti

Visiting Researcher, Computer Science - Northeastern University
Research // Structural Bioinformatics

Mohammed Sakib Noor

Graduate Research Assistant, CBE | Email
Research // Design of therapeutic proteins
Loves // soccer, movies, lord of the rings

Rahil Salehi

Graduate Research Assistant, CBE | Email
Research // Long-range interactions in extremophile proteins
Loves // cooking, movies

Hannah Gates

Graduate Research Assistant, BCB | Email

Research // protein design, rare-earth separation
Loves // rock climbing, hiking, biking, working out, softball, hockey, music

Supantha Dey

Graduate Research Assistant, IGG | Email
Research // Vaccine Design
Loves // Blade Runner, Pearl Jam, Sunil.

Moulica Vani Goli

MS Candidate, Artificial Intelligence, Iowa State | Email | |
Ex employee in Verizon
Research // Big Data, Data Science, Artificial Intelligence
Loves // Cooking , Art, Gym workouts

Rachana Krishnamurthy

Graduate Research Assistant, BCB| Email
Research // in silico Drug-design, targeted therapy
Loves // singing, badminton, the office

Naimisha Venkatesh

Graduate Research Assistant, Bioinformatics| Email
Research // Drug design
Loves // debating,hiking,reading novels.



⇣ Undergraduate Researchers

Jack Girton

Major: CBE | Email |
Griswold Undergraduate Fellow 2023
Research // Understanding rates of drug release from nanovaccines
Loves // cooking, being outdoors, tennis, working out

Julia Young

Major: Software Engineering | Email |
First Year Honor's Research Program
Research // Designing proteins for rare-earth separation
Loves // playing guitar, knitting, going on walks outside with my friends

Brooklyn Mills

Major: Biochemistry | Email
Primary: Grand View University
Research // Allostery of metal-binding proteins
Loves // biking

Maria Brown

Major: Chemical engineering| Email |
Research // Porcine viral infection study
Loves // dog training, star Wars, baking, board games

Jennifer Bruner

Major: Chemical engineering| Email |
Research //Porcine Viral Infection Study
Loves // painting, reading, crocheting

Shashank Koneru

Major: Computer Science | Email |
Research //Lanthanide Binding Computation on Proteins from Extreme Organisms Targeting Drug-Kinase Interactions: Computational Strategies for Drug Discovery
Loves // basketball, football, traveling, hanging out with friends



⇣ Alumni

Naomi Mauss (Summer 23, Research Intern, CBE).


Jack Sloyan (Summer 23, Research Intern, CBE).


Brooklyn Mills (Summer 23, BioMAP REU, Biochemistry - Grand View University, IA).


Adele Haghighat Hoseini (Summer 23, Research Assistant, PhD in CS).


Jerome Chow (Fall 22, Research Intern, CBE). Currently: BS, National University of Singapore.


Sophie Faga (Spring 22, FHP Iowa State, CBE).


Kaelie Hainlin (Spring 22, CHE 490).