August 2024: Congratulations to our undergraduate researcher, Max Kim for receiving multiple graduate school admission offers. He will join the Department of Chemical Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology as a graduate student soon!
August 2024: Congratulations to Arnav Paul and Adrija Dutta for receiving the Kenneth L. Rinehart Fellowship and Janet M. Buhrke & Victor E. Buhrke Fellowship respectively from the Department of Chemistry!
August 2024: Farewell to summer interns, Arkajyoti Bannerjee from IACS Kolkata and Sayan Patra from IIT Bombay! Thanks to the Indo-U.S. Science & Technology Forum for supporting their work as Khorana Scholars in our group!
June 2024: Ning Wang, postdoctoral fellow joined our group! She did PhD at University of Notre Dame. Welcome Ning!
May 2024: Prof. Shukla received the Pierce Award from the College of Engineering for excellence in mentoring and promoting student-faculty cooperation! Read more about it here.
May 2024: Congratulations to Hassan Nadeem for receiving the Mavis Future Faculty Fellowship from the College of Engineering!
April 2024: Xuenan Mi receives the Graduate Student Excellence Award from the American Chemical Society! Congratulations!
April 2024: Joseph Clark receives the Jenner Family Summer Undergraduate Fellowship from the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology! Congratulations!
April 2024: Congratulations to Song Yin for receiving the A. T. Widiger Fellowship from the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering!
March 2024: Congratulations to Prof. Shukla and the group members for receiving the Dean’s award for excellence in research from the college of engineering! Read more about it here.
March 2024: Congratulations to undergraduate researcher, Anh Nguyen for publication of her first author paper in Nature Communications! Her paper was highlighted by the Illinois news! You can read more about it here.
February 2024: Michael Chen, graduate student in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering joined our group! He will work on simulations of membrane proteins such as GPCRs. Welcome Michael!
December 2023: Harrison Wu and Nathan Tvedt, graduate students in Biophysics joined our group! Welcome Harrison and Nathan!
November 2023: Adrija Dutta, graduate student in Chemistry joined our group! Welcome Adrija!
October 2023: Austin Weigle receives the Graduate Student Excellence Award from the American Chemical Society! Congratulations!
October 2023: Wilson Wu, graduate student in ChBE joined our group! Welcome Wilson!
August 2023: Lin Zhu, graduate student in Information Sciences joined our group! Welcome Lin!
August 2023: Congratulations to Arnav Paul for receiving the Mark Pytosh Fellowship from the Department of Chemistry!
July 2023: Congratulations to Prateek Bansal for receiving the A. T. Widiger Fellowship from the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering!
June 2023: Congratulations to Diego Kleiman for receiving the MolSSI Software Fellowship from the Molecular Sciences Software Institute.
May 2023: The Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering (ChBE) along with the School of Chemical Sciences (SCS) have awarded the teaching excellence awards for 2022-2023 to Nicole Chiang! She received the award for her work as a TA for the ChBE 413 Chemical Data Science and Engineering taught by Prof. Shukla and Prof. Jackson. Read the news here!
March 2023: Congratulations to Song Yin for publication of his work in JACS! Please read more about it in this news article from Illinois news. https://chbe.illinois.edu/news/stories/54217
January 2023: Hassan Nadeem, graduate student in Bioengineering joined our group! He will work on developing methods for ML guided simulations of proteins. Welcome Hassan!
January 2023: Our group is part of RIPE 3.0 Realizing Increased Photosynthetic Efficiency project, an international research effort led by scientists at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. RIPE project is supported by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. You can find more information about this center here.
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!