People



Current Group Members

Anne Katherine Brooks
Marlo Colimbo
Akul Miriyala
Gavin Standish

Former Graduate Students and Postdoctoral Scholars

Dr. Sayantan Pradhan, PhD (Spring 2021); Postdoc (2022-23)
Dr. Ben Nicholson, MD (visiting scientist)
Dr. Dzmitry Omes (visiting Fulbright Scholar - 2022) - Brest State University
Dr. Sudesna Chakravarty
Dr. Meng Xu
Dr. Anita Olsen
Dr. Yanke Jiang (visiting Scholar - 2019) - Assistant Professor at Chongqing University
Kanwal Iqbal, MS (Spring 2020) - HEJ Institute, Karachi
Dr. Muhammad Imran (visiting Scholar) - HEJ Institute, Karachi
Dr. Ramendra Pal, PhD (Summer 2017) - Assistant Professor at BITS, Hyderabad
Nisreen Alseamr - MS (Spring 2016)
Dr. Congzhou Wang, PhD (Fall 2015) - Associate Professor at South Dakota Mines
Dr. Nicholas Kurland, PhD (Fall 2013) - Engineer at Invista
Mahmoud Moustafa, MS (Summer 2014)
Eric McCullough - MS (Summer 2013)
Dr. Xiaojuan Zhang - PhD (Fall 2011) - Jiangnan University
Zouheir Drira - MS (Fall 2009)
Dr. David V. Svintradze (2008-09) - Tblisi State University
Dr. Songnian Liu (2016-17) - Rappahannock Community College

Former Undergraduate Students

Jordan Biter
Macky Cisse
AV Milstein
Grayson Ramsey (Maggie Walker High School)
Sahithi Thudi
Michael Shumate
Halle Wulff (St. Catherine's High School)
Caitlin Terry
Maryam Ali
Jacob Broitman
Benjamin Hittel
Nadajah Knight
Cara Brooks
Thomas Manley (JR Tucker High School)
Jalaj Sawhney
Ashton Pease
Lokesh Narayanan
Dora Obodo (NIH PREP program)
Jorge Rodriguez
Jeffrey Jones
Benjamin Chalfant
Brian Morrell
Reuben Gol
Emigdio Turner (NIH PREP program)
Devon Phaneuf
Ryan Joiner
James Westbrook
Samuel Wojicki
Neil Uppuluri (TJ High School)
Marshal Singh
Benjamin Kirby
Rohit Sharma
Snehi Shrestha
Rachel Barbieri
Ryan Lee
Paul Lee
Ahmed Ahmed Elmak
William Lamie
Krystal Zentgraf
Aolin Zhang (JR Tucker High School)
Joanna Kettlewell
David Presnall
David Newsome
Kyle Sherwood
Sudan Abdur-Rahman
Chris Weigel
Eric Gawalt
Ryan Andrus
Puja Bharucha
Tejas Khire (IIT Kharagpur)
Puja Bharti (IIT Kharagpur)

We are always on the lookout for smart, self-motivated people interested in solving some of the "smallest" problems in biophysics and engineering. Contact Dr. Vamsi Yadavalli at vyadavalli [at] vcu.edu for details on specific projects.