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Graduate Students

      Kio Tanemura                 ​Zhen Li               Laleh Dinpazhouh      Diego Sierra Costa                   

       Akhil Shajan​               Mithony Keng    


Post Docs

          Lin Song               Madu Manathunga        Susanta Das                   Chi Jin  

      Gaurav Sharma          ​​Ali Rahnamoun      


Visiting Scientists




Alumni

Jun Pei (2020) - postdoc
Anthony Seitz (2020) - Software engineer
Zhuoqin (Doris) Yu (2019) - Industrial data scientist
Nupur Bansal
(2018) - Research Scientist Biogen
Pengfei Li (2016) - Postdoc at Yale University
Lili Pan (2015) - Postdoc at FDA
Yipu Miao (2015) - Amazon, Inc.
Ting Wang (2015) - Pursuing MS in Packaging.

Hugo Gattuso (2014) - Pursuing Ph.D. in France
Mona Minkara (2015) - Postdoc with Ilja Siepmann
Nihan Ucisik (2014) - Postdoc with Sharon Hammes-Schiffer
John Faver (2012) - Postdoc with Bill Jorgensen
Alex Fu (2012) - Staff Scientist
Yue Yang (2011) - Post Doc at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Xiao He (2010) - Post Doc with So Hirata at UIUC
Seth Hayik (2009) - Market Analyst at Monitoring Analytics
Duane Williams (2009) - Analyst at Discovery Logic, a Thomson Reuters Company
Bryan Op’t Holt (2008) - Senior Strategy Consultant at Kaiser Permanente
Martin Peters (2007) - Computational Scientist at Irish Centre for High-End Computing (ICHEC)
Lance Westerhoff (2005) - General Manager at QuantumBio, Inc
Andrew Wollacott (2005) - Protein Design Lead at Monsanto
Kaushik Raha (2005) - Investigator at GSK
Ed Brothers (2003) - Texas A&M Univ at Qatar
Laura van Zant (2001) - Consultant at HCL Technologies
Arjan van der Vaart (2001) - Univ of South Florida
Jim Vincent (1998) - Director of the Bioinformatics Core for the Vermont Genetics Network 
Sam Toba (1998) - Industry Relations at the American Chemical Society
Scott Best (1997) - Teaching at Conestoga High School
Rob Stanton (1995) - Associate Research Fellow
Tim Glennon (1995) - Scientific Software Project Leader at Sophic Systems Alliance
Karen Rossi (1994) - Bristol-Myers-Squibb
Scott Legrand (1993) - Principal Engineer at Amazon
Tami Marrone (1993) -Computational Chemistry Group Leader at Dart Neuroscience


Quan Jiang (postdoc) - postdoc Rutgers University
Arka Sengupta (postdoc) - postdoc UCLA

Zheng (John) Zheng 
(post Doc) - Wuhan University of Science and Technology
David Cerutti (post Doc) - Rutgers University
Dario Gioia (visiting student) - IIT Genoa, Italy
Haizhen (Andy) Zhong (visiting scientist) - University of Nebraska, Omaha
Dhruva Chakravorty (post Doc) - University of New Orleans
Xu Li (Post Doc) - In China
Ben Roberts (Post Doc) - Centre for eResearch at the University of Auckland 
Bing Wang (Post Doc) - Computational Chemist at Tibet Haisco Pharmaceutical Company
Norbert Flocke (Post Doc) - FLASH Center for computational sciences at the University of Chicago
Mark Benson (Post Doc) - Remedy MD
Guanglei Cui (Post Doc) - Principle Scientist at GSK
Kevin Riley (Post Doc) - Assistant Professor Xavier University of Louisiana 
Alexander Mitin (Post Doc) - Leading research scientist in the Chemistry Department 
at The Moscow State University
Alessandro Genoni (Post Doc) -  Researcher at the Université Henri Poincaré in Nancy, France
Laszlo Fusti Molnar (Post Doc) - Research Scientist at OpenEye Scientific Software
Eirik Falck da Silva (Post Doc) - Researcher at SINTEF and Norwegian University of Science and Technology      
Hwangseo Park (Post Doc) - Assistant Professor, Seoul National University
Dimas Suarez (Post Doc) - Professor, University of Oviedo, Spain
Natalia Diaz (Post Doc) - Professor, University of Oviedo, Spain
Valentin Gogonea (Post Doc) - Professor, Cleveland State University
Maria D. Ermolaeva (Post Doc) - Caricature Software
Gerald Monard (Post Doc) - Professor in the Department of Chemistry at the Université Henri Poincaré in Nancy, France
Steve Dixon (Post Doc) - Director, Ligand-Based Drug Design at Schrodinger
Dave Hartsough (Post Doc) - Executive Director - Sites, Benchtop, & Validation R&D Informatics at Amgen
Ailan Cheng (Post Doc) - Director at CZT
Komath Damodaran (Post Doc) - Scientist at Elan Pharmaceuticals
Habibah Wahab (Visiting Scientist) - Professor at Universiti Sains Malaysia
Gautham Nadig (Post Doc) - Director at Metahelix Life Sciences Private Limited
Yajun Zheng (Post Doc) - Senior Research Fellow at Vitae Pharmaceuticals
Lucia Banci (Visiting Scientist) - Professor, University of Florence
Zhengwei Peng (Post Doc) - Sr Principle Scientist at Roche Pharmaceuticals
Giorgio Colombo (Visiting Scientist) - Researcher, ICRM, Italy
Xiaodong Zhang (Post Doc) - Sr. Research Associate at UCSB
Ning Yu (Post Doc) - Principal Scientist at Pfizer
Guillermina Estiu (Post Doc) - Assistant Research Professor at University of Notre Dame

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