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Prof. Timothy W. Johann
Visiting professor
Experimental and Computational Biochemistry; focus on predicting protein-ligand binding energetics.
Email @roanoke.edu: johann
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Fatemeh Ghafouri Graduate Student (Ph.D), GBCB
Computational Approaches to Drug Discovery
Email @vt.edu: fatemeh22
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Luke Elder Graduate Student (Ph.D), Computer Science
Physics-guided Deep Learning to help Drug Discovery
Email @vt.edu: luke177
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Egor Kolesnikov Graduate Student (Ph.D), Physics
Physical Epigenetics, Implcit Solvation models.
Email @vt.edu: kolesnikoves
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Charles Plate Graduate Student (Ph.D), Chemical Engineering
Computational Epigenetics of Cancer, Computational Drug Design.
Email @vt.edu: cplate
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Bernie Yang Undergraduate Student, Computer Science
Machine Learning for Computational Drug Design.
Email @vt.edu: ybernie
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Daniel Jeon Junior, Langley High School, VA
Algorithms for analysis of 3D genome structures
Email @gmail.com: danieljeon65
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JunKai Zhang Undergraduate Student, Computer Science. Continued as a Ph.D. student in Computer Science at the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC).
Worked on Signatures of Ageing in Chromatin Structures, Computational Rejuvination of Fruit Flies.
Email @vt.edu: junkaiz
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Alan Cai Undergraduate Student, Computer Science. After graduation, got a job in industry.
Computational Drug Design.
Email @vt.edu: alanc
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Dr. Igor Tolokh
Senior Research Scientist (2009 - 2025). Retired.
Worked on multiple projects over the years, including, but not limited to: Conceptual Development of Implicit Solvent Models, Charge Hydration Asymmetry, Condensation of Nucleic Acids, Cmputational Models of Genome Organization.
Email @vt.edu: itolokh
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Samira Mali Former graduate Student (MS 2025), Department of Computer Science.
Worked on Computational 3D genome organization
Email @vt.edu: smali
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Yingjie Zhao Undergraduate Student, Computer Science
Effect of model parameter variations on key aspects of chromatin organization.
Email @vt.edu: yzhao9426
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Lewis Bass Undergraduate Student, Computer Engineering. Moved on to pursue PhD in VT Computer Engineering.
Deep Learning to help Drug Discovery
Email @vt.edu: lewisbass
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Dan Folescu BS, Department of Mathematics. BS, Computer Science. Moved on to pursue Ph.D in the Math department of VT.
Fast Computational Models of Water
Email @vt.edu: dan1345
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Alexander Afanasyev Former Graduate Student (Ph.D, 2023), Department of Biomedical Engineering and Mechanics
Worked on models of DNA deformation and Chromatin Organization.
Continued on as a post-doc at UT Austin.
Email @vt.edu: alexandr
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Yeyue Xiong Former Graduate Student (Ph.D, 2021), Department of Biomedical Engineering and Mechanics.
Worked on Fast Computational Models of Water.
After graduation, got a job as a Senior Scientist at Schrödinger Inc., San Diego, CA.
Email @vt.edu: xiongyy
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Negin Forouzesh Former Graduate Student (Ph.D, 2020), Department of Computer Science. Now Assosciate Professor at California State University, LA
Email @vt.edu: neginf
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Raju Nadimpalli Undergraduate Student, Department of Computer Science. Got a job at Amazon.
Email @vt.edu: rajun
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Parviz Shabane Was a Ph.D candidate from 2013 to 2020. In 2020 received an MS.
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Kyle Titus-Glover Undergraduate Student, Department of Biomedical Engineering and Mechanics. Got accepted to VT graduate school.
Email @vt.edu: kyle136
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Nick Kinney Former Graduate student (Ph.D 2016), GBCB.
Became a research assistant professor for Biomedical Sciences, VCOM, VA. Now an assistant professor at Sweet Briar College, VA.
Email @gmail.com: nkinney06
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Alexander Drozdetski Former Graduate student (Ph.D 2016), Physics. Now a senior staff software engineer at Udemy, Inc.
Email @vt.edu: adrozdet
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Saeed Izadi
Former Graduate Student (Ph.D 2016), Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics.
Now Director - Research Data Sciences, Gilead Sciences
, San Francisco.
Email @vt.edu: izadi
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Ramu Anandakrishnan
Former Graduate student (Ph.D, 2011), then a post-doc,
Department of Computer Science. Now Assistant Professor
for Biomedical Sciences, VCOM, VA.
Email @vt.edu: ramu
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Abhishek Mukhopadhyay
Former Graduate student (Ph.D, 2015), Department of Physics. After graduation, got a job as a scientist at Zymeworks Inc., Vancouver, Canada. Now director at Reverb Therapeutics.
Email @vt.edu: abmukho
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Boris Aguilar
Former Graduate Student (Ph.D, 2014), Department of Computer Science. Then a post-doc at Institute of Systems Biology, Seattle; currently, a Senior Research Scientist at the same institute.
Email @vt.edu: baguilar
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Promita Chakraborty
Former Graduate student (Ph.D, 2014), Department of Computer Science (VT) and Berkeley Lab
Email @lbl.gov: pchakraborty
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Casey (Charles) Baker
Former undergraduate Student, triple major: Physics, Biology and Math. Went to grad school at Harvard.
Email @vt.edu: cbaker
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Andrew Fenley
Former Graduate student (Ph.D 2010), Department of Physics.
Went on to do a post-doc at U. California, San Diego. Then a scientist at Dart NeuroScience LLC, San Diego.
Email @vt.edu: afenley
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John Gordon
Former graduate student (MS 2007), Department of Computer Science. Went on to work for Microsoft in Seattle, worked through the ranks to Senior Lead Software Design Engineer.
Virginia Tech Email: jogordo3@vt.edu
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Jory Z. Ruscio
Former graduate student (Ph.D 2007), Graduate program in Genetics, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology. Went on to do a post-doc at UC Berkeley.
Virginia Tech Email: jzmuda@vt.edu
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Jon Myers
Former graduate student (M.S. Bioinformatics 2007), transferred to University of Georigia to continue on towards a Ph.D.
Virginia Tech Email: jonmyers@vt.edu
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David Adams
Former udergraduate student, Physics + Computer Science (BS 2007, double major). Went to grad school at U. Michigan at Ann Arbor
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Richard Shadrach
Former udergraduate student, Mathematics + Computer Science (BS 2008 ). Went to grad school at Michigan State University
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Puranjoy Bhattacharjee
Former Graduate Student (M.S. 2009), Department of Computer Science. Stayed at VT to do a Ph.D. in systems.
Email @cs.vt.edu: puran
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Grigori Sigalov, Ph.D
Former Senior Scientist. Worked on implicit
solvent models (2004-2006).
Went to Urbana-Champaign to work in industry.
Email @vt.edu: sigalov
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