Postdocs
Ankit Dhanuka (2025-present) an IGB Fellow at the Center for Artificial Intelligence and Modeling at UIUC.
Ashish Bino George (2021-2023) currently a research scientist at Broad Institute, Cambridge, MA
Parth Pratim Pandey (2018-2019) currently an Assistant Professor at UPES University, India
Fei He (2015-2017) currently Assistant Professor at the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, China
Purushottam Dixit (2011-2013) currently Associate Professor, Yale University
Yaroslav Ispolatov (2004-2009) currently Professor at the U. Santiago, Chile; Visiting scientist at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
Anirban Chakraborti (2002-2004) currently Dean, School of Engineering & Technology, BML Munjal University, India
Current Ph. D. students
Owen Blanchard UIUC Physics
Kaushik Karambelkar UIUC BIOE
Lucas Ribaudo UIUC Physics
Zihan Wang UIUC Physics
Xiaocheng Yang UIUC Physics
Former Ph. D. students
Ananthan Nambiar UIUC BIOE (graduated in 2025 from BIOE UIUC) currently a postdoc at William Noble lab at University of Washington, Seattle
Tarun Mahajan UIUC BIOE (graduated in 2024 from BIOE UIUC) currently a computational Biologist at Immunai, NYC)
Veronika Dubinkina (graduated in 2022 from BIOE UIUC) currently a postdoc at Katie Pollard lab at Gladstone Institute, UCSF
Tong Wang (graduated in 2021 from Physics UIUC) currently an assistant professor at Purdue University, Indiana, USA
Akshit Goyal (graduated in 2019 from NCBS, Bengaluru, India and co-advised with Prof. Sandeep Krishna) currently an assistant professor at International Centre for Theoretical Sciences (ICTS), Bengaluru, India
Anar Amgalan (graduated in 2021 from Stony Brook U., Department of Physics and Astronomy and co-advised with Prof. Lilianne Mujica-Parodi). Currently, a postdoc at University of Southern California
Tin Yau Pang (graduated in 2013 from Stony Brook, U., Department of Physics and Astronomy). Currently a research scientist at the Center of Excellence in Plant Sciences, Düsseldorf, Germany
Dylan Walker (graduated in 2008 from Stony Brook U., Department of Physics and Astronomy). Currently, an assistant professor of information systems at Boston University
Huafeng Xie (graduated in 2008 City University of New York and co-advised with Professor Brian Schwartz). Currently, a Wall Street data analyst
Koon-Kiu Yan (graduated in 2007 from Stony Brook, U. Department of Physics and Astronomy). Currently, a lead computational research scientist at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis TN





