Members

Principle Investigator

Jing Chen, PhD

Email: chenjing@vt.edu
Phone: (540)-231-1359

  • Associate Professor of Biological Sciences, 2022-
  • Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences, 2016-2022
  • Postdoc, National Institutes of Health, 2010-2015
  • Ph.D., Biophysics, University of California, Berkeley, 2010
  • M.S., Mathematics in Bioscience, Technische Universität München, Germany, 2004
  • B.S., Biology, Fudan University, China, 2002

Postdocs

Avishek Mukherjee

Email: avishmj@vt.edu

  • Ph.D., Applied Mathematics (concentration in mathematical biology), University of Delaware, 2023
  • M.S., Pure and Applied Mathematics, Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, India, 2014
  • B.S., Major in Pure and Applied Mathematics, Minor in Statistics, Ramakrishna Mission Residential College, West Bengal, India, 2012

Saptarshi Chatterjee

Email: schatterjee92@vt.edu

  • Ph.D., Physics, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Kolkata, India, 2022
  • M.S., Physics, Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda University, West Bengal, India, 2015
  • B.S., Physics, West Bengal State University, West Bengal, India, 2013

Graduate Students

Nicholas Keen

Email: nicholaskeen@vt.edu

  • PhD candidate in BIOTRANS and Biology
  • B.S., Biomathematics and Biology, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, 2020

Zahra Abbaspourasadollah

Email: zahraa@vt.edu

  • PhD candidate in GBCB
  • M.S., Condensed Matter Physics, Isfahan University of Technology, Iran, 2019
  • B.S., Nuclear Physics, University of Yazd, Iran, 2015

Kien Phan

Email: kientp@vt.edu

  • PhD candidate in GBCB
  • B. Eng., Applied Mathematics and Scientific Computing, Hanoi University of Science and Technology, Vietnam, 2022

David Mock

Email: davidmock31@vt.edu

  • PhD candidate in GBCB
  • B. S., double major in Mathematics and Biology, California University of Pennsylvania, 2023

Undergraduate students

Noah Rupp

Alumni

Graduate students

  • Nidhi Chopdekar, Computer Science and Biological Sciences MS, 2024
  • Xiaochu Li, BIOTRANS and Biological Sciences PhD, 2023; currently postdoc at Merck.
  • Yirui Chen, GBCB PhD, 2023; currently computational biologist at Biogen.
  • Xiangyu Yao, GBCB PhD, 2023; currently postdoc at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.
  • Sean McMahon, Physics PhD, 2022; currently quantitative developer at Chatham Financial.

Undergraduate students

  • Seneca Ung, Systems Biology undergrad, Minor in Public Health, 08/2023-05/2024 (graduated in 2024)
  • Max Albrecht, Systems Biology undergrad, 08/2022-05/2023 (graduated in 2023; PhD student in TBMH program at Virginia Tech)
  • Jax Poer, Systems Biology undergrad, 06/2021-05/2022 (graduated in 2022)
  • Ossam Awan, Biological Sciences undergrad, 08/2018-05/2021 (graduated in 2021)
  • Irem Guner, postbac volunteer, Pre-Medicine graduate of Penn State, 05/2020-12/2020
  • Joe Hood, Systems Biology undergrad, 08/2019-05/2020 (graduated in 2020; will attend Doctor of Chiropractic Program at Life University)
  • Ben Heidebrecht, Systems Biology undergrad, 08/2018-05/2020 (co-advise with John Tyson; graduated in 2020; quality assurance test engineer at G3 Technologies, Inc.)
  • Stefany Nunez, VT PREP postbac, 07/2019-08/2019 (VT PREP mini rotation)
  • Nailah Kamal, Biological Sciences undergrad, 01/2019-12/2019
  • Jessica Gates, Biological Sciences undergrad, 08/2018-12/2018 (graduated in 2020)
  • Kelly Graff, Biological Systems Engineering undergrad, 01/2018-05/2018 (Virginia Tech Accelerated Undergraduate/Graduate Program)
  • Dilara Long, Physics undergrad, 08/2017-05/2018 (graduated in 2018; currently MD-PhD student at University of Arizona)