People

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

Alan Cai

Undergraduate Student, Computer Science. After graduation, got a job in industry.

Computational Drug Design.

Email @vt.edu: alanc

Dr. Igor Tolokh

Senior Research Scientist (2009 - 2025).

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

Samira Mali

Former graduate Student (MS 2025), Department of Computer Science.

Worked on Computational 3D genome organization

Email @vt.edu: smali

Yingjie Zhao

Undergraduate Student, Computer Science

Effect of model parameter variations on key aspects of chromatin organization.

Email @vt.edu: yzhao9426

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

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

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

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

Negin Forouzesh

Former Graduate Student (Ph.D, 2020), Department of Computer Science. Now Assosciate Professor at California State University, LA

Email @vt.edu: neginf

Raju Nadimpalli

Undergraduate Student, Department of Computer Science. Got a job at Amazon.

Email @vt.edu: rajun

Parviz Shabane

Was a Ph.D candidate from 2013 to 2020. In 2020 received an MS.

Kyle Titus-Glover

Undergraduate Student, Department of Biomedical Engineering and Mechanics. Got accepted to VT graduate school.

Email @vt.edu: kyle136

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

Alexander Drozdetski

Former Graduate student (Ph.D 2016), Physics. Now a senior staff software engineer at Udemy, Inc.

Email @vt.edu: adrozdet

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

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

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

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

Promita Chakraborty

Former Graduate student (Ph.D, 2014), Department of Computer Science (VT) and Berkeley Lab

Email @lbl.gov: pchakraborty

Casey (Charles) Baker

Former undergraduate Student, triple major: Physics, Biology and Math. Went to grad school at Harvard.

Email @vt.edu: cbaker

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

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

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

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

David Adams

Former udergraduate student, Physics + Computer Science (BS 2007, double major). Went to grad school at U. Michigan at Ann Arbor

Richard Shadrach

Former udergraduate student, Mathematics + Computer Science (BS 2008 ). Went to grad school at Michigan State University

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

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