December 2020: Graduate Student Jesse Horne, first year ChBE student joined our group! He did undergraduate degree in chemical engineering from University of Alabama. Welcome Jesse!

December 2020: Graduate Student Matthew Chan received fellowship from the NSF Molecular Science Software Institute to extend his work on Transfer learning based methods for predicting effect of protein variants.

November 2020: Balaji Selvam, Post-doctoral fellow in our group will join Gossamer Bio, San Diego as a computational scientist. All the best!

October 2020: Graduate Student Hsin-Lan (Nicole) Chiang, first year ChBE student joined our group! She did undergraduate degree in chemical engineering from UCLA. Welcome Nicole!

August 2020: Graduate student, Jiangyan Feng won the Chemical Computing Group Excellence Award for Graduate students from the Division of Computers in Chemistry, American Chemical Society. Congratulations!

July 2020: Graduate student, Chuankai Zhao successfully defended his thesis. He will join Bloomberg (NYC) as a research software engineer. Congratulations!

May 2020: Graduate student, Shriyaa Mittal successfully defended her thesis. She will join as a postdoctoral fellow at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard University. Congratulations!

April 2020: Prof. Shukla received the C3.AI Digital Transformation Institute Research Award to work on modeling of interaction between human ACE2 receptor and SARS-CoV-2 Spike protein.

April 2020: Prof. Shukla received the Dean’s Award for Excellence in Research from the College of Engineering, University of Illinois.

January 2020: Our recent work on “How evolution shapes the conformational free energy landscapes of proteins?” is highlighted in the Emerging Young Investigator issue of MSD&E journal!

January 2020: Jiming Chen and Prof. Diwakar Shukla are included in the List of Excellent Teachers for teaching Chemical Reaction Engineering and Process Control & Dynamics in Fall 2019 respectively.