Current Members

Principal Investigator

  • Amarda Shehu [Curriculum Vitae]

    Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science
    Affiliate Appointment in the Department of Bioinformatics
    Ph.D. Rice University 2008

    email: amarda{AT}cs.gmu.edu
    web: www.cs.gmu.edu/~ashehu

    Bio that can be used for talks:

    Dr. Amarda Shehu is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at George Mason University. She holds affiliated appointments in the School of Systems Biology and the Department of Bioengineering at George Mason University. She received her B.S. in Computer Science and Mathematics from Clarkson University in Potsdam, NY and her Ph.D. in Computer Science from Rice University in Houston, TX, where she was an NIH fellow of the Nanobiology Training Program of the Gulf Coast Consortia. Shehu's research contributions are in computational structural biology, biophysics, and bioinformatics with a focus on issues concerning the relationship between sequence, structure, dynamics, and function in biological molecules. Her research on probabilistic search algorithms for protein conformational spaces is supported by the NSF. Shehu is also the recipient of an NSF CAREER award in 2012 for her research on a unifying framework for modeling protein molecules in the presence of constraints.

Ph.D. Students

  • Brian Olson

    Ph.D. candidate, Department of Computer Science
    M.S. George Mason University
    B.S.E. Princeton University

    email: bolson3{AT}gmu.edu
    web: http://brianolson.info

  • Kevin Molloy

    Ph.D. student in the Dept. of Computer Science
    M.S. George Mason University
    B.S. George Mason University

    email: kmolloy1{AT}gmu.edu
    web: http://mason.gmu.edu/~kmolloy1

  • Irina Hashmi

    Ph.D. student in the Department of Computer Science
    M.S. University of Dhaka, Bangladesh
    B.S. University of Dhaka, Bangladesh

    email: ihashmi{AT}gmu.edu
    web: http://mason.gmu.edu/~ihashmi

  • Uday Kamath

    Ph.D. student in the Department of Computer Science
    M.S. University of North Carolina
    B.S. University of Mumbai
    Co-advised with Prof. Kenneth De Jong

    email: ukamath{AT}gmu.edu
    web: http://mason.gmu.edu/~ukamath

M.S. Students

  • Amr Majul

    M.S. student in the Department of Chemistry
    B.S. George Mason University
    Co-advised with Dr. Barney Bishop

    email: amajul{AT}gmu.edu
    web: http://www.mason.gmu.edu/~amajul

  • Daniel Veltri

    M.S. student in the Dept. of Bioinf. and Comp. Biol.
    B.A. University of Colorado at Boulder

    email: dveltri{AT}gmu.edu
    web: http://binf.gmu.edu/~dveltri

  • Rudy Clausen

    M.S. student in Computer Science
    George Mason University
    M.S. in Biophysics, UW Madison

    email: rudy.clausen{AT}gmail.com

Undergraduate Students

  • Sameh Saleh

    Junior, Applied Computer Science in Biology
    George Mason University
    Recipient of GMU Apprentice Fellowship (Fall 2011)

    email: ssaleh2{AT}gmu.edu

  • Jennifer Van

    Sophomore, Computer Science
    George Mason University
    Recipient of GMU Apprentice Fellowship (Spring 2013)
    B.A. in Mathematics, UVA

    email: minh.j.van{AT}gmail.com

  • Scott Jordan

    Freshman, RIT
    Summer 2013

    email: scott.jordan{AT}gmail.com

  • Mark Wechsler

    Freshman, RIT
    Summer 2013

    email: mark.wechsler{AT}gmail.com

High School Students

  • Niraja Bohidar

    Summer and Fall 2012
    Junior, Thomas Jefferson High School

    email: nirajaxyz123{AT}gmail.com