Members

Who we are

⇣ Principal Investigator

Ratul Chowdhury, PhD

Assistant Professor
Building a World of Difference Faculty Fellow
Chemical & Biological Engineering (CBE)
Biomedical Engineering (BME)
Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (BCB)
Ames National Laboratory (ALAB)
Email | | |

⇣ Postdoc Scholars

Karuna Anna Sajeevan, PhD

Postdoctoral Fellow | Email | |
PhD, BITS Pilani, India. 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

⇣ Graduate Students

Sakib Ferdous

PhD candidate, CBE | Email | |
MS Artificial Intelligence, Iowa State
BS Chemical Engineering, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET), Bangladesh.
Research // T-cell activation, reinforcement learning
Loves // coding

Randy Aryee

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

Biswaroop Maiti

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

Priyanshu Gupta

Visiting Researcher, Environmental Engineering - University of Texas at Austin
Research //protein design, ion-ion separations
Loves // soccer, biking

Mohammed Sakib Noor

Graduate Research Assistant, CBE | Email
BS, Chemical Engineering, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET), Bangladesh
Research // Design of therapeutic proteins
Loves // soccer, movies, lord of the rings

Ella Salehi

Graduate Research Assistant, CBE | Email
BSc: Chemical Engineering, University of Shiraz, Iran.
Msc: Chemical/Biomedical engineering, University of Tehran, Iran.
Research // Computational Protein Design and REE Separation
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
BS & MS: Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Research // Vaccine Design
Loves // Blade Runner, Pearl Jam, Sunil.

Vaishnavey SR

Graduate Research Assistant, CBE | Email

B.Tech: Chemical and Electrochemical Engineering, CSIR-Central Electrochemical Research Institute, Karaikudi, India. Research // Metabolic modeling and molecular modeling of membrane transport
Loves // Carnatic Music, Cooking, Non-Fiction

Mohammad Reza Zargar

Graduate Research Assistant, CBE | Email

BSc: Chemical and petroleum Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran.
Research // Metabolic modeling and de novo enzyme activity engineering
Loves // Cooking, Volleyball, Soccer

⇣ 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

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

Curwen Pei Hong Tan

Major: Computer Science | Email
Research // Image Processing, Front-end Developer
Loves // Listen to music/songs.

Laura Mariana Correa

Major: Chemical Engineering | Email |
Research // Biological Imaging, Enzyme Kinetics
Loves // music, working out, sudoku

⇣ Alumni

Summer 23 - Adele Haghighat Hoseini (Research Assistant, PhD in CS). Now: Boehringer Ingelheim (Data Scientist)

Spring 24 - Yee Chuen Teoh (MS in Computer Science) Now: Software Engineer at Amazon

Fall 24 - Bibek Acharya (MS in CBE). Now: PhD Student at Vanderbilt University

Spring 24 - Naimisha Venkatesh (MS in BCB). Now: MS Bioinformatics, Northeastern University

Spring 24 - Moulica Vani Goli (MS in AI - Rotation Student).

Spring 24 - Maria Brown (CBE). Now: FIRE Rotational Program Engineer at HWI

Spring 24 - Jennifer Bruner (CBE)

Spring 24 - Zachary L Wallace (CBE)

Fall 24 - Brisa Lopez Calderon (REU IINSPIRE-LSAMP)

Spring 24 - Rachana Krishnamurthy (BCB). Now: MS Bioinformatics, Johns Hopkins University

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

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

Summer 23 - Brooklyn Mills (BioMAP REU). Now: PhD Biochemistry, Washington Univ. St. Louis

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

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

Spring 22 - Kaelie Hainlin (CHE 490).