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Members at the time of archiving
The following roster reflects the site’s last update in August 2026.
David Minh
Robert E. Frey, Jr. Endowed Chair and Associate Professor of Chemistry at Illinois Tech (through 2026)
Sadia Afrin
M.S. student in Chemistry
2025 – 2026
Fatimah Amer
B.S/D.O. student in Biology
2025 – 2026
Joseph Depaolo-Boisvert
Ph.D. student in Chemistry
2020 – 2026
Aiman Khan
Ph.D. student in Chemistry
2022 – 2026 (with Minh group starting 2024)
Anna Nguyen
Ph.D. student in Chemistry
2023 – 2026
Talha Talib
Ph.D. student in Chemistry
2022 – 2026 (with Minh group starting 2024)
James Tufts
Ph.D. student in Chemistry
2020 – 2026
Alumni
Hong Ha “Ella” Nguyen
Ph.D. student in Chemistry
2020 – 2026
Liliia Shanina
B.S. student in Chemical Engineering
2024 – 2026
Bob Eisenberg
Distinguished Visiting Professor
2021 – 2025
David Cooper
B.S. student in Medicinal Chemistry
2023 – 2025
Qi Xu
Ph.D. student in Chemistry
2014 – 2025 (with Minh group starting 2022)
Van “Sophie” La
Ph.D. student in Biology
2020 – 2024
Stanley Nicholson
B.S./M.S. student in Applied Mathematics
2021 – 2023
Soohaeng Yoo Willow
Research Assistant Professor
2019 – 2023
Kunj Patel
B.S. in Medicinal Chemistry
2021 – 2022
Tien “Jaycee” Do
M.S. student in Biology (joint with Oscar Juarez)
2020 – 2022
Bing Xie
Ph.D. student in Chemistry and Senior Research Associate.
2014 – 2019
Subsequently: Postdoctoral Researcher, National Institutes of Health.
William Menzer
B.S./M.S. student in Molecular Biochemistry and Biophysics
2016 – 2019
Subsequently: Ph.D. Student, LMU Munich. See his alumni spotlight.
Trung Hai Nguyen
Senior Research Associate
2014 – 2018
Subsequently: Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Illinois, Chicago. Lecturer at Ton Duc Thang University, Vietnam.
M. Reza Gangalikhany
Visiting Scholar
2018
Subsequently: Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, Isfahan University, Isfahan, Iran.
Chen Li
M.S. in Chemistry.
2013 – 2017
Laurentiu Spiridon
Senior Research Associate
2013 – 2016
Subsequently: Staff Scientist, Institute of Biochemistry of the Romanian Academy, Bucharest, Romania.
John Clark
B.S. Honors Thesis Student in Chemistry
2013 – 2015
Subsequently: Proctor and Gamble. See his alumni spotlight.
Rachael Youngworth
B.S. Honors Thesis Student in Chemistry
2014 – 2015
Subsequently: Ph.D. Student, University of Chicago.
Research project students
(involved for one or more semesters)
Vigneshwaran Moorthi, Generative AI & ML Engineer, 2024 – 2025
Michal Stanisz, M.S. student in Molecular Biochemistry and Biophysics, 2024 – 2025
Barien Gad, B.S./M.S. student in Biochemistry / Data Science, 2023 – 2024
Beomjong Lee, B.S. student in Computer Science, 2023 – 2024
Kevin Alvardo, B.S. in Medicinal Chemistry, 2023
Urvi Mekala, B.S. student in Computer Science, 2023
Poshan Pandey, M.S. student in Computer Science, 2023
Thitipun Srinarmwong, M.S. student in Computer Science, 2023
Sivanujan Suthaharan, Ph.D. student in Chemistry, 2022
Mohammmed Haqqani, M.S. student in Computer Science, 2022
Natalie ``Blaine’’ Jumonville, B.S. student in Physics, 2018 – 2019
Erica Cusnariov, B.S. student in Computer Science, 2017
Robert ``Wes’’ Ludwig, B.S. student in Bioinformatics, 2017
Kenneth Ford, M.S. student in Molecular Biochemistry and Biophysics, 2016 – 2017
Wenji Sun, M.S. student in Biology, 2016
Kyle Burke, M.S. student in Chemistry, 2014
Shubin Zhang, M.S. student in Physics, 2014 – 2015
Yang-Yang Xie, M.S. student in Computer Science, 2014 – 2015
Yu-Ting Yu, Master of Chemistry student, 2014 – 2015
Archive status
This is an archive of the Computational Chemical Biology Lab at Illinois Tech. David Minh is no longer affiliated with Illinois Tech, and this site is not accepting applications or inquiries on behalf of the former lab.