Who we are
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)
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Postdoctoral Fellow | Email |
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PhD, BITS Pilani, India. Postdoc, IIT Bombay, India
Research // MD simulations, enzyme kinetics
Loves // traveling, reading novels, gardening
Postdoctoral Fellow (co a/f: Oden Institute) | Email |
PhD, BITS Pilani. India
Research // Ammonium Protein Channels
Loves // cricket, photography
Graduate Research Assistant (MS), COMS | Email |
Research // Transformers for MD trajectories
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
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
Graduate Research Assistant, BCB | Email
Research // protein design, rare-earth separation
Loves // rock climbing, hiking, biking, working out, softball, hockey, music
Graduate Research Assistant, IGG | Email
BS & MS: Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Research // Vaccine Design
Loves // Blade Runner, Pearl Jam, Sunil.
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
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
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
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
Major: Computer Science | Email
Research // Image Processing, Front-end Developer
Loves // Listen to music/songs, baking.
Major: Chemical Engineering | Email |
Research // Biological Imaging, Enzyme Kinetics
Loves // Music, working out, sudoku
Major: Chemical Engineering | Email
Research // Machine learning, Protein interactions, and image based recognition
Loves // Snowboarding, coding my own games, hiking, and baking with fruit.
Major: Computer Science | Email |
Research // Machine Learning, Backend Services
Loves // Gym, Hanging out, Games
Major: Software Engineering | Email |
Research // Software/web development
Loves // All things sports, meeting new people, and learning anything about anything
Major: Chemical Engineering Minor: Biotechnology | Email |
Summer Internship
Research // Computational Protein Engineering, Computational Oncology, Structural Bioinformatics, ML
Graduate Students:
Fall 25 - Sakib Ferdous. Now: Bioinformatics Scientist, Corteva
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 Lehigh University
Spring 24 - Naimisha Venkatesh (MS in BCB). Now: MS Bioinformatics, Northeastern University
Spring 24 - Rachana Krishnamurthy (BCB). Now: MS Bioinformatics, Johns Hopkins University
REUs:
Spring 23 - Spring 25 Jack Girton (CBE Griswold Fellow in Alumni) Now: PhD student, UMinnesota - Twin Cities
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)
Fall 24 - Aaron Kammlah (FHP Iowa State, CPRE)
Fall 24 - Nikhita Nallu (FHP Iowa State, COM S)
Fall 24 - Cris Matthews (FHP Iowa State, BCB)
Fall 24 - Andrew Slaughter (FHP Iowa State, ME)
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).
Evan Ingmire - TrACE REU 2025, University of Alabama
Ali Zahedi - BioMAP REU 2025, University of California, Irvine
Joel - IIINSPIRE LSAMP REU 2025, DMACC
