People
Jingzhi Pu (PI)
Postdoc, Harvard University (2005-2010; with with Martin Karplus)
Postdoc, University of Minnesota (2004-2025; with Jiali Gao)
Ph.D., University of Minnesota (2004; with Donald G. Truhlar)
B.S., Peking University (1999)
Dongru Li (3rd year Ph.D. student)
M.S., Fudan University (2023)
B.S., Henan Institute of Science and Technology (2020)
Tinh Ho (3rd year Ph.D. student; co-advised by Prof. Partha Basu)
Hysum Qazi (undergraduate researcher; UROP Scholar: 2024-2026)
John Rooney (undergraduate researcher; 2026)
Former group members
Graduate students
Ryan Snyder (Ph.D. 2023; currently, postdoc at Rutgers)
B.S., IU Bloomington
Bryant Kim (Ph.D. 2023; currently, postdoc at Merck)
B.A., IUPUI
Mellisa Hege (Ph.D. 2023; currently, IU School of Medicine)
B.A., IUPUI
Ryan Young (Ph.D. 2023)
B.S., IU Bloomington
Karen Thomson (MS, Fall 2013)
Aimee Rinas (Ph.D. student, 2011-2012)
Currently, Principal Scientist at Nexelis
Previously, Ph.D. student in Lisa Jones group at IUPUI
Pamela Filby (graduate student, 2015-2016; co-advised by Prof. Eric Long)
B.S., Ball State University (Cum Laude, ) (2012)
M.S., Ball State University (2014)
Postdocs
Mulpuri Nagaraju (Raju) (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)
B.S., 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)
Ph.D., Universität Kassel, Germany
E-mail: pojedama[at]iupui.edu
Undergraduates
Salma Abdelhamid (undergraduate student, “1st Year Research Immersion” 1RIP fellow, 2024)
Taemoor Hasan (undergraduate student, “1st Year Research Immersion” 1RIP fellow, 2024)
Rebekah Jackson (undergraduate, 2021-2022; NIH postbacceloriate grant awardee; currently, Yale)
UROP scholarship, Summers 2021 and 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
Highschool students
Harry Wang (highschool student, Carmel High School, 2018)
Project STEM Summer Research Intern
Joanna Zhang (highschool student, Carmel High School, 2017)
Project STEM Summer Research Intern
Yiyang (Ben) Sun (highschool student, The King's Academ, 2017)
Project SEED Summer Research Intern
Jacob Lucas (highschool student, Arsenal Tech High School, 2012 & 2013)
ACS SEED Summer Research Intern