December 2022: Prateek Bansal won the SCS Science Image Challenge in the Cover Art Category for his work on the cover of ACS central science. Congratulations!
December 2022: Our group is part of The Center for Predictive Materials Design (PreMaDe) supported by Army research Office. Find more information about the center here.
December 2022: Arnav Paul, graduate student in Chemistry joined our group! He will work on ML guided simulations of membrane transporters. Welcome Arnav!
September 2022: Professor Diwakar Shukla named a Pivot Fellow by Simons Foundation! You can find more details here.
August 2022: Jiming Chen, graduate student in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering defended her thesis on “Molecular Perspectives on Protein-Ligand Selectivity in Host and Parasitic Plants”. Congratulations Jiming!
August 2022: Our group received funding NIH R21 grant from National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) to work on machine learning guided design of HIV latency modulators!
July 2022: Matthew Chan, graduate student in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering defended his thesis on “Molecular Mechanisms of Neurotransmitter Transport in Neurons”. Congratulations Matt!
June 2022: Dr. Yiyang Lu, PhD in Bioengineering from University of Illinois joined our group as a postdoctoral fellow! He will work on high-thought experiments for characterizing protein sequence, structure and function relationships.
May 2022: Sarah Lindley, first year Bioengineering student joined our group! She did undergraduate degree in Biology from Arizona State University. She will work on high-throughput experiments for design of agrochemicals for drought resistance. Welcome Sarah!
March 2022: Our group received funding from Herman Frasch Foundation for Chemical Research for machine learning guided design of agrochemicals for inducing drought resistance in plants!
January 2022: Lingyun Xu, first year Bioengineering student joined our group! She did undergraduate degree in Physics from Nanjing University. She will work on high-thought experiments for characterizing protein sequence, structure and function relationships. Welcome Lingyun!