#  Alumni 

 



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##  Graduate Students 

 



  [### Sherry Chao

 ](/people/sherry-chao) <schao@g.harvard.edu>5th Year in Harvard Bioinformatics &amp; Integrative Genomics

 

 

 Probabilistic methods development for cancer immunology; computer vision for biomedical images with clinical applications 

 

 

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   [### Nicholas L. Cuccia

 ](/people/nicholas-l-cuccia) <cuccia@g.harvard.edu>5th Year in Harvard Applied Physics, Physics Fellow at the University of California - Santa Barbara

 

 

 Nicholas is our resident experimentalist. He experimentally studies many soft systems: buckling of thin shells, hydrogel friction, and helical colloids. Nicholas is co-advised by Shmuel M. Rubinstein and Zvonimir Dogic. 

 

 

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   [### Yipei Guo

 ](/people/yipei-guo)PhD in Biophysics from Harvard University

 

 

 Programming cells, evolutionary dynamics, transcription network stability 

 

 

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   [### Ofer Kimchi

 ](/people/ofer-kimchi)5th Year in Harvard Biophysics

 

 

 RNA free energy landscapes; post-translational protein oscillators; self-assembly of protein multimers 

 

 

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   [### Andrei A. Klishin

 ](/people/andrei-klishin)PhD in Physics from University of Michigan, Fellow of Harvard SEAS

 

 

 Statistical mechanics framework for design problems in Naval Engineering and self-assembly, tensor network methods for classical statistical physics. 

 

 

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   [### Ryan Krueger

 ](/people/ryan-krueger)4th Year in Harvard Applied Mathematics

 

 

 Ryan is a fourth-year PhD student in Applied Math working on inverse design for biomolecules 

 

 

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   [### Seong Ho Pahng

 ](/people/seong-ho-pahng)4th Year in Harvard Chemistry

 

 

 Developing neural network-based surrogate model for Monte Carlo; Characterizing phase-change material with simulation and statistical mechanics 

 

 

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##  Postdocs 

 



  [### Agnese Curatolo

 ](/people/agnese-curatolo) <acuratolo@seas.harvard.edu>Applied Mathematics

 

 

 Design of biomaterials: combining analytics and computations to optimize self-assembly 

 

 

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   [### Alma Dal Co

 ](/people/alma-dal-co-0) <adalco@g.harvard.edu>Applied Mathematics

 

 

 I study how interactions between entities at one level give rise to functionality at a higher level of organization. I am interested in ecology, microbes and collective behaviour. 

 

 

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   [### Chrisy Xiyu Du

 ](/people/chrisy-xiyu-du) <xiyudu@seas.harvard.edu>Applied Mathematics

 

 

 Programmable assembly of bio-inspired materials using statistical mechanics framework and molecular dynamics simulations 

 

 

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   [### Megan C. Engel

 ](/people/megan-c-engel)Biophysics

 

 

 I am interested in the statistical mechanics and non-equilibrium physics of biological systems, with a special focus on biomolecular folding and nanotechnology. I hope to use my postdoctoral position to learn some machine learning techniques that can be... 

 

 

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   [### Carl Goodrich

 ](/people/carl-goodrich)Postdoctoral Fellow in Applied Mathematics

 

 

 Currently an Assistant Professor at IST Austria. 

 

 

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   [### Rozhin Hajian

 ](/people/rozhin-hajian) <hajian@g.harvard.edu>Applied Mathematics

 

 

 My research area expands through three main complementary research thrusts: Fluid Dynamics, Aerodynamics, and Aeroacoustics. I investigate underpinning principles in the aforementioned areas using the proper mathematical and computational tools. 

 

 

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   [### Xiaojue Zhu

 ](/people/xiaojue-zhu) <xjzhu@g.harvard.edu>Harvard CMSA and Applied Mathematics

 

 

 Fluid Dynamics, machine learning of PDE 

 

 

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