People

Former PhD Students:

1. Feng Cui: PhD in Bioinformatics. Thesis topics: Distance based protein structure determination and refinement. Graduated in summer 2005. Current employment: Professor, School of Life Sciences, Rochester Institute of Technology.
2. Ajith Gunaratne: PhD in Applied Math. Thesis topics: A penalty function method for constrained molecular dynamics simulation. Graduated in summer 2006. Current employment: Professor, Department of Mathematics, Florida A & M University.
3. Di Wu: PhD in Applied Math & Bioinformatics. Thesis topics: Distance based protein modeling. Graduated in summer 2006. Current employment: Associate Professor, Department of Accounting and Finance, California State University, Bakersfield.
4. Peter Vedell: PhD in Applied Math & Bioinformatics.Thesis topics: Multiple shooting approaches to boundary-value problems in molecular dynamics simulation. Graduated in spring 2007. Current employment: Senior Bioinformatics Scientist, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota.
5. Rahul Ravindrudu: PhD in Computer Science. Thesis topics: A parallel high-performance system for protein structure refinement. Graduated in fall 2008. Current employment: Research Scientist, the Proteomics Research Company, India.
6. Atilla Sit, PhD in Applied Math. Thesis topics: Geometric approaches to protein modeling. Graduated in summer 2010. Current employment: Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics, Eastern Kentucky University.
7. Jun-Koo Park: PhD in Applied Math.Thesis topics: Coarse-grained normal mode analysis for protein structural fluctuations. Graduated in summer 2012. Current employment: Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics, Georgia Gwinnett College.
8. Ozgur Aydogmus: PhD in Applied Math. Thesis topics: Evolutionary game dynamics, inverse problems. Graduated in summer 2013. Current employment: Professor, Social Sciences University of Ankara, Ankara, Turkiye.
9. Yuanyuan Huang: PhD in Applied Math & Bioinformatics. Thesis topics: Protein structural analysis, evolutionary game dynamics. Graduated in summer 2013. Current employment: Senior data scientist, RapidMiner Inc., Boston, Massachusetts.
10. Yiping Hao: PhD in Applied Math. Thesis topics: Evolutionary game dynamics and applications in plant development. Graduated in summer 2013. Current employment: Software Developer, Epic Systems Corp, Verona, Wisconsin
11. Min Wang, PhD in Applied Math & Statistics. Thesis topics: Evolutionary game dynamics and applications. Graduated in summer 2015. Current employment: Lead data scientist, Target Tech., Target Enterprise Inc., Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Former Postdocs:

1. Qunfeng Dong: Supervised in 2000-2001. Current employment: Professor, Center for Biomedical Informatics, Stritch School of Medicine, Loyola University Chicago
2. Wonbin Young: Supervised in 2004-2005. Current employment: Assistant Professor, Department of Radiology, School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh.
3. Wen Zhou: Supervised in 2013-2015. Current employment: Associate Professor, Department of Biostatistics, School of Global Public Health, New York University.