#  Graduate Students 

 



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##  Graduate Students 

 



  [### Ramya Deshpande

 ](/people/rayma-deshpande)5th Year in Harvard Bioengineering

 

 

 Differentiable physics models to learn collective behaviors of cells in developmental & synthetic biology 

 

 

      ![ramya.jpeg](/sites/g/files/omnuum6161/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/brennergroup/files/ramya.jpeg?itok=esHC49pi) 

 

 

 

   [### Livia Guttieres

 ](/people/livia-guttieres)3rd Year in Harvard Applied Physics

 

 

 Livia is a 3rd year PhD student working on self-assembly optimization and inverse design. 

 

 

      ![livia](/sites/g/files/omnuum6161/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2025-02/PHOTO-2025-02-13-16-46-39.jpg?itok=f1UyWTHK) 

 

 

 

   [### Aidan Zentner

 ](/people/aidan-zentner)3rd Year in Harvard Applied Physics

 

 

 I am interested in the extent to which molecular systems can be engineered to perform complex computations. 

 

 

      ![aidan](/sites/g/files/omnuum6161/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2026-01/aidan-pic.jpg?itok=XuZ4GDS1) 

 

 

 

   [### Qian-Ze Zhu

 ](/people/qian-ze-zhu) <qianzezhu@g.harvard.edu>5th Year in Harvard Applied Physics

 

 

 My research combines statistical physics, differentiable simulation and machine learning to uncover fundamental limits and design principles governing self-assembly, information flow, and molecular computation. 

 

 

      ![qian-ze](/sites/g/files/omnuum6161/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2025-01/IMG_7609_cropped.jpg?itok=dhqfgyXw)