Garde Group Alumni
Postdoctoral Researchers
- Eugene Wu, PhD, RPI; Current Position: Yield Engineer, Intel, New Mexico
- Ketan Khare, PhD, Texas Tech; Current Position: Research Associate, NIST
- Amish Patel, PhD Berkeley, Current Position: Associate Professor, University of Pennsylvania, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
- Parbati Biswas, PhD, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore; Current Position: Professor, University of Delhi, Chemistry
Ph.D. Graduates
- Anisha Pawar 2023 (co-advised with Joel Plawsky 2021-2023)
“Interfacial Phenomena in Heat Pipes: Microscopic and Molecular Dynamics Study” Current Position: Unit Process Engineer, IBM, Albany, NY - Imee Sinha 2022 (co-advised with Steve Cramer)
“Characterization of Protein Surface Hydrophobicity using Molecular Dynamics Simulations and Deep Learning” Current Position: Genentech, San Francisco. - Mayank Vats 2022 (co-advised with Steve Cramer)
“Elucidating the Role of Multimodal Ligand Surfaces in Protein Chromatography using Molecular Dynamics Simulations” Current Position: Sr. Scientist, Merck - Camille Bilodeau 2020 (co-advised with Steve Cramer).
“The Molecular Phenomena Unverlying Multimodal Chromatographic Separations:
A molecular Dynamics Study.” Current Position: Postdoc at MIT with Klavs Jensen. - Suvrajit Banerjee 2016 (co-advised with Steve Cramer).
“Protein-Surface Interactions in Multimodal Chromatography: A Molecular Modeling
Based Investigation.” Current Position: Entrepreneurial Scientist at Avantor. - Lijuan Li, 2016.
“Structure, Thermodynamics, Dynamics, and Assembly of Macromolecules at
Aqueous Interfaces.” Current Position: Scientist, Bristol Meyers Squibb. - Eugene Wu, 2016
Title: “Solvation and Interactions in Aqueous, Organic, and Biomolecular Systems at
Nanoscale Interfaces”, Current Position: Yield Engineer at Intel. - V. Vasudevan 2014 (co-advised with Joel Plawsky).
Title: Ions, Osmolytes, and polymers at aqueous interfaces: Insights from molecular theory and
Simulations”, Current Position: Research Scientist, W. L. Gore - Siddharth Parimal 2014 (co-advised with Steve Cramer)
Title: Molecular Investigations of Multimodal Ligand-Protein Interactions, 2014
Current Position: Scientific Leader, GSK. - Srivathsan Vembanur, Title: “Molecular-level studies of water and water-mediated interactions
at aqueous interfaces”, Current Position: Oregon Health and Science University.
Hari Acharya, Title: “Influence of interfaces on hydrophobicity, and on heat and momentum
transport”, Current Position: Scientist, BioMarin Pharmaceutical Inc., CA. - Natalia Shenogina (co-advised with Pawel Keblinski), Title: “Thermal coupling at aqueous and biomolecular interfaces”, May 2010.
- Sumanth Jamadagni, 2010 Title: “How interfaces affect the behavior of water and water-mediated interactions: Molecular Theory and Simulations”, May 2010. Currently at Procter and Gamble
Research, Cincinnati, OH. - Sapna Sarupria, Title: “Understanding pressure effects on biological self-assembly: Role of
hydration and water-mediated interactions”, July 2009. Current Position: tenured Associate
Professor at University of Minnesota. - Rahul Godawat, Title: “Hydration and assembly in interfacial environments: Thermodynamic,
Structural, and Kinetic Studies”, April 2009. Current Position: Alexion Pharmaceuticals, MA. - Brian Pereira (co-advised with Georges Belfort) Title: “Mechanistic studies of Intein Splicing by
Molecular Modeling, Simulation, and Molecular Biology Experiments”, May 2008. Current Position: Scientist, CRISPR Therapeutics, Boston. - Manoj Athawale, Title: “Hydrophobicity in the multidimensional space of lengthscales,
attractions, and thermodynamic conditions”, June 2007. Current Position: Data Engineer and Data Scientist, Intel Corporation, Portland, Oregon. - Sowmi Rajamani, Title: “Molecular simulation studies of hydration phenomena relevant to
biological systems”, May 2006. Current Position: Yield Group Leader, Intel Corporation, Portland, Oregon. - Harshit Patel, Title: “Molecular Dynamics Studies of Alkane Polymers: In Melts and at
Interfaces”, May 2005. (coadvised by E. B.Nauman). Current Position: an independent entrepreneur in Mumbai, India. - Lu Yang, Title: “Understanding Hydration in Biological and Colloidal Systems”, December,
2004. (coadvised by J. D. Dordick). Current Position: VP and CEO, Stealth Mode Battery Start up, CA. - Tuhin Ghosh, Title: “Hydration in Biological Systems”, March 2004. Current Position: Head of Customer support
and Safety Data Science, Lyft, CA. - Amrit Kalra, Title: “Exploring Carbon Nanotubes and Their Assemblies as Molecular Channels”,
August 2003. Current Position: Senior Process Engineer, Shell Oil Company, Houston, Texas.
M.S. Graduates
- Ishita Manjrekar, Title: “Hydration in Biological Systems”, 2007
Currently senior associate at Sunanda Specialty Coatings, Mumbai, India. - Hongjun Liu, Title: “Phase behavior of square well fluids”, 2006
Currently a postdoc at Notre Dame - Sandeep Jain, Title: “Multiscale coarse-graining of polymeric melt systems”, 2005
Currently the Director of Market Risk at TD Secutiries. - Erik Storm, Title: “Molecular Modeling of Intein Structure”, August, 2003.
Currently at Cytiva, MA.
Undergraduate Researchers
- Arin Khare (2022)
- Ishan Khambete (2022)
- Owen Lockwood (2018 - 2021)
- Tejus Shastry (2017)
- Finn Jacobson (2017, high school student)
- Christine Artim (2014)
- Stephen Vicchio (2014, UMBC)
- Andrew Fiore (2012)
- Cuyler Bates (2010)
- Chris Bosoy (2007-2010)
- Steve Roy (2007)
- Joseph Reynolds (2005)
- Caitlin Scott (2005-2007)
- Jake Cohen (2004)
- Monica Berrondo (2003)
- Seema Jaisinghani (2003)
- Hsiao Nancy Lin (2002)
- Rebecca Rosenberg Beran (2002)
- Pamela Sarro (2001)
- Robert Gottleib (2012)
- Nick Mozdzierz (2011-2012)
- Zach Whiteman (2008)
- Nai'l Mitchell (2007)
- Galina Gartsman (2007)
- Nathan Marsan (2005, high school student)
- Ashish Adhikari (2004)
- Saryu Jindal (2004)
- Archana Fotedar (2003)
- Anya Esonis (2003)
- Shifalika Kanwar (2002)
- Jerome Covey (2002)
- Brian Goldberg (2001)