Research Group

Feng Cui

I have an academically (and culturally) diverse group of students. Some of them come from biology or chemistry background, and some from mathematics, statistics, or computer science. They come originally from as many as eight different countries, which contributes a lot more fun to our group. Our group has collaborated with several other computational biology groups or labs on campus and in particular, with the Jernigan’s group. Dr. Jernigan has been the co-advisor for most of our students.

(graduated) Ph.D. student, Pioneer Fellow, Computational Biology / Physical Chemistry, Research Topics: Distance Dependent Protein Structure Determination, now research fellow at NIH

Ajith gunaratne

(graduated) Ph.D. student, Mathematics, Research Topics: Penalty Function Methods for Constrained Molecular Dynamics, now assistant professor at Florida A&M U

Kriti Mukhopadhyay

(graduated) M.S. student, Mathematics, Research Topics: Refinement of Protein Structures with Database Derived Distance Constraints, now in industry

Rahul ravindrudu

Ph.D. student, Computer Science, Research Topics: Parallel Algorithms for Protein Potential Energy Minimization

E-mail: fengcui@iastate.edu

E-mail: ajith@iastate.edu

E-mail: kriti@iastate.edu

E-mail: rrahul@iastate.edu

Zhijun wu

Associate Professor of Mathematics, Bioinformatics, and Computational Biology

E-mail: zhijun@iastate.edu

Andrew severin

Ph.D. student, Bio-physics, Bio-chemistry / Applied Math, Research Topics: Protein NMR and X-ray Crystallography Computing

Yves Sucaet

Ph.D. student (rotation), Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Research Topics: Metabolic Network Modeling and Optimization

Vladimir sukhoy

Ph. D. student, Mathematics, Research Topics: Parallel, Global, Multi-scale Methods for Protein Modeling

Peter Vedell

(graduated) Ph.D. student, IGERT Fellow, Pioneer Fellow, Computational Biology / Mathematics, Research Topics: Protein Dynamics Analysis and Simulation, now research fellow at Jackson Lab

E-mail: severin@iastate.edu

E-mail: yves@iastate.edu

E-mail: sukhoy@iastate.edu

E-mail: vedell@iastate.edu

Zach voller

Ph.D. student, Mathematics, Research Topics: Distance Geometry Optimization for Protein Structure Determination

E-mail: zvoller@iastate.edu

Eunmee yoonann

(graduated) M.S. student, Mathematics, Research Topics: Linear and Combinatorial Optimization with Applications, now at U. Texas, Pan Am