Team
Our members come from engineering, computer science, biology, chemistry, mathematics, and statistics.
Principal investigator
Jagdish S. Patel, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering
His group uses molecular simulation and machine learning to study how protein sequence and structure shape function, evolution, and response to drugs.
Current members
Graduate students
Shubham Pandey
Ph.D. Candidate, Biological Engineering
Spectral tuning in rhodopsins with molecular dynamics and machine learning
2023–present
Undergraduate students
Fernando Sotelo
Undergraduate Researcher, Computer Science
Predicting color vision from opsin sequences with interpretable machine learning
Spring 2026–present
Shreesh Bastakoti
Undergraduate Researcher, Mathematics and Statistics
Implementing machine learning on biological data
Spring 2026–present
Justin Keele
Undergraduate Researcher, Biological Engineering
Computational discovery of fungicide candidates for potato crops
Fall 2025–present
Alumni
- L. America Chi, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Researcher · 2024–2025 - Jonathan E. Barnes
Postdoctoral Researcher · 2023–2024 - Rupesh Sah
Undergraduate Researcher · Fall 2025–2026 - Ashika
Undergraduate Researcher · Spring 2026 - Robi Robi
Undergraduate Researcher · Spring 2025 - Avneet Virk
Undergraduate Researcher · Summer–Fall 2024 - Cooper Malloy
Undergraduate Researcher · Summer 2024 - Aajinkya Naik
High School Researcher · 2024–2025