People

Current Group Members

Jingzhi Pu (濮憬智)

Associate Professor
Department of Chemistry & Chemical Biology
Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI)

BS, Peking University
Ph.D., University of Minnesota (with Donald G. Truhlar)
Postdoc, University of Minnesota (with Jiali Gao); Harvard University (with Martin Karplus)
Email: jpu[at]iupui.edu

Dongru Li (Ph.D. student)

BS, Henan Institute of Science and Technology
MS, Nankai University
Email: dl66[at]iu.edu

Ryan Young (Ph.D. student)

BS, IU Bloomington
MS, Ball State University
Email: rysyoung[at]iu.edu

Hysum Qazi (undergraduate student; UROP)

UROP scholarship, Academic Year 2023-204
Email: hqazi[at]iu.edu

Taemoor Hasan (undergraduate student; "1st Year Research Immersion" 1RIP fellow)

IUPUI
Email: taehasan[at]iu.edu

Former Group Members

Graduate students

Ryan Snyder (Ph.D. 2023; currently, postdoc at Rutgers)

BS, IU Bloomington
Email: rymsnyde[at]iu.edu

Bryant Kim (Ph.D. 2023; currently, postdoc at Merck)

BA, IUPUI
Email: brykim[at]iu.edu

Mellisa Hege (Ph.D. 2023; currently, IU School of Medicine)

BS, IUPUI
Email: mhege[at]iu.edu

Aimee Rinas (Ph.D. student, 2011-2012)

Currently, Principal Scientist at Nexelis
Previously, Ph.D. student in Lisa Jones group at IUPUI

Karen Thomson (MS, Fall 2013)

Pamela Filby (graduate student, 2015-2016; co-advised by Prof. Eric Long)

BS, Cum Laude, Ball State University (2012)
MS, Ball State University (2014)

Postdocs

Mulpuri Nagaraju (postdoc, 2014-2017)

Ph.D., Indian Institute of Chemical Technology
Postdoc, Georgia State University
Postdoc, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis
E-mail: mulpurinagaraju[at]gmail.com

Yan Zhou (postdoc, 2011-2014; currently, faculty at GuangXi University for Nationalities, China)

BS, University of Science & Technology of China

Ph.D., University of Minnesota

Postdoc, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis

E-mail: zhouyan[at]iupui.edu

Pedro Ojeda-May (postdoc, 2011-2014; currently, Senior Research Engineer, Umeå University, Sweden)

I am currently working on a scheme to compute electrostatic interactions by using
cutoff approximations. The method could be used in Quantum Mechanical Molecular
Mechanics (QM/MM) simulations.

Previously I was working with Monte Carlo and Classical Molecular Dynamics
simulations during my Ph.D. (Universität Kassel, Germany).

E-mail: pojedama[at]iupui.edu

Undergraduate students

Rebekah Jackson (undergraduate, 2021-2022; currently: NIH)

UROP scholarship, Summers 2021 & 2022
Email: rebajack[at]iu.edu

Darlene Evans (undergraduate, 2018)

Cameron Meadows (undergraduate, 2017)

Seth Keeton (undergraduate, 2017)

Tung Ho (undergraduate, 2015)

Jacques Roettcher (undergraduate, 2015)

Seunghwan (Robin) Lee (undergraduate, 2015)

Jeremiah Saylae (undergraduate, 2014)

Murad Beg (undergraduate, 2013)

Duy Nguyen (undergraduate, 2012)

Currently, Indiana National Guard and PTS Diagnostics

Kimberly Adams (undergraduate, 2013)

Anne Cook (undergraduate, 2012)

Brett Palencer (undergraduate, 2012)

Currently, Kremers Urban Pharmaceuticals Inc.

Hongdi Bai (undergraduate, 2012)

Cornelius Audu (undergraduate, 2011-2012)

McNair Scholar, IUPUI (2011)
Currently, Northwestern University

Jeremy Fiege (undergraduate, 2011)

Highschool students

Joanna Zhang (highschool student, Carmel High School, 2017)

Project STEM Summer Research Intern

Yiyang (Ben) Sun (highschool student, The King's Academy, 2017)