June 2026: Graduate student, Yong-Cheol Cho was selected for the A .T. Widiger Fellowship from the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering. Congratulations!
May 2026: Graduate student, Diego Kleiman successfully defended his thesis in Biophysics and Quantitative Biology on “Accelerating Adaptive Sampling Molecular Dynamics Simulation With Machine Learning”. Congratulations Dr. Kleiman!
April 2026: Graduate student, Eric Giavedoni was selected for the Mavis Future Faculty Fellowship program. Learn more about this program here.
April 2026: Undergraduate student, Naomi Wang was selected for the ChBE department fellowship program. Naomi is mentored by graduate student, Harrison Wu on high-throughput mutagenesis experiments of membrane proteins. Congratulations Naomi!
April 2026: Graduate student, Nicole Chiang successfully defended her thesis in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering on “Machine Learning for Protein Engineering Across Data Modalities”. Congratulations Dr. Chiang!
March 2026: Congratulations to graduate student, Hassan Nadeem for winning the People’s choice award for his research poster at BioE day.
March 2026: Congratulations to Soumajit Dutta for starting as assistant professor in chemical engineering at Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar ! He was a graduate student in our research group at ChBE Illinois. Looking forward to all the wonderful science that will come out of Dutta lab at IITGN!
March 2026: Our group was selected for the Pivot Research Award from the Simons Foundation. You can read the news about this award here, “Shukla receives Pivot Research Award to advance next-generation crop engineering”.
February 2026: Our group was selected along with our collaborator, Prof. Theresa Schoetz for the seed grant from the NSF Molecule Maker Lab Institute. You can read the news about this award here, “New grant to support AI-guided design of redox polymers”
February 2026: Graduate student, Arnav Paul won the Student Research Achievement Award from the Biophysical society for his research poster on “Mechanistic Insights Into Glucose Transport for PFHT1 from Molecular Dynamics and Graph Attention Models”.
January 2026: Graduate student, Tianyu Wu from Biophysics program joined our group. Welcome!
November 2025: Vedant Gawande and Filippos Drakopoulos, first year graduate students in Chemistry joined our group. Welcome Vedant and Filippos!
November 2025: Graduate Student, Tanner Dean’s work on predicting the enzyme specificity was recently published in Nature. Congratulations! You can read the full article on this link.
October 2025: Graduate Student, Song Yin won the first prize in the graduate research symposium organized by the department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering. Congratulations!
October 2025: Graduate Student, Song Yin won the AIChE PD2M student award. Congratulations!
August 2025: First year graduate students, Yuming Zhou (Plant Biology) and Shivank Nag (Bioengineering) joined our group in Fall 2025. Welcome!
July 2025: Congratulations to Parteek Bansal for successfully defending his thesis!
June 2025: Dr. Le Xue joins our group! She will be working on experimental protein engineering projects in the group. Welcome Le!
January 2025: Congratulations to Tanner J. Dean, fourth year graduate student in Center for Biophysics and Quantitative Biology for passing his thesis preliminary exam!
January 2025: Congratulations to our undergraduate researcher, Joseph Clark for publishing a first author paper in Digital Discovery! This paper was featured on the journal cover as well.
December 2024: Congratulations to our newest doctor, Dr. Xuenan Mi on sucessfully defending her thesis!
November 2024: Congratulations to Prateek Bansal for winning the ACS Pride Merck Research Award from American Chemical Society. Read it news from ChBE@illinois here.
November 2024: Congratulations to Arnav Paul, third year graduate student in Chemistry for passing the preliminary exam! He is now a PhD Candidate in Physical Chemistry!
October 2024: Welcome to first year students Eric Giavedoni (ChBE), Masi Dashtban (ChBE), Miko Nina Miwa (Chemistry), Shaoming Chen (MatSE), Yong-Cheol Cho (ChBE) who have recently joined our group!
September 2024: Congratulations to Song Yin for co-authoring a paper on “Substrate interactions guide cyclase engineering and lasso peptide diversification” in Nature Chemical Biology! The paper was highlight in a news and views article in Nature Chemical Biology and Institute of Genomic Biology press release.
August 2024: Congratulations to Wilson Wu and Michael Chen, ChBE first year graduate students for passing the oral qualifying exam!
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.