Dr. Xuenan Mi successfully defended her thesis on “Data Driven Peptide Drug Discovery and Design” in December, 2024. Xuenan was a graduate student in Center for Biophysics and Quantitative Biology. She joined Shukla group in Fall 2019. Xuenan collaborated with Prof. Wilfred van der donk and Doug Mitchell in the Department of Chemistry to develop computational models of RIPPs natural products. For excellence in graduate research, Xuenan received the CCG graduate student excellence award from ACS Division of Computers in Chemistry. Xuenan will join Johnson & Johnson as a senior scientist.