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
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
Hassan Khan
Email: hassansafi@vt.edu
Undergraduate students
Maggie Wan
- Major in Mathematics and Biology
Eshal Khowaja
- Major in Biomedical Engineering
Pooja Thaker
- Major in Computer Science and General Engineering
Alumni
Graduate students
- Nidhi Chopdekar, Computer Science and Biological Sciences MS, 2024; currently research technician at UNC Chapel Hill.
- 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
- Noah Rupp, Biological Sciences, Minor in Computer Science, 10/2023-08/2025
- Srihan Balaji, Computer Science & Mathematics undergrad, Minor in Physics, 09/2024-05/2025
- Seneca Ung, Systems Biology, Minor in Public Health, 08/2023-05/2024 (graduated in 2024)
- Max Albrecht, Systems Biology, 08/2022-05/2023 (graduated in 2023; currently PhD student in TBMH program at Virginia Tech)
- Jax Poer, Systems Biology, 06/2021-05/2022 (graduated in 2022; currently senior business development representative at Komodor.com)
- Ossam Awan, Biological Sciences, 08/2018-05/2021 (graduated in 2021; currently medical student at West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine)
- Irem Guner, postbac volunteer, Pre-Medicine graduate of Penn State, 05/2020-12/2020
- Joe Hood, Systems Biology, 08/2019-05/2020 (graduated in 2020; will attend Doctor of Chiropractic Program at Life University)
- Ben Heidebrecht, Systems Biology, 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, 01/2019-12/2019
- Jessica Gates, Biological Sciences, 08/2018-12/2018 (graduated in 2020)
- Kelly Graff, Biological Systems Engineering, 01/2018-05/2018 (Virginia Tech Accelerated Undergraduate/Graduate Program)
- Dilara Long, Physics, 08/2017-05/2018 (graduated in 2018; currently MD-PhD student at University of Arizona)