Principal Investigator
Professor and Scott Family Fellow,
Department of Physics
Adjunct Professor, Department of Cancer Biology
Director, Physics Graduate Program (MS and PhD)
Director, Interdisciplinary Graduate Certificate Program in Structural and
Computational Biophysics
Co-Director, Crystallography and Computational Biosciences Shared Resource of the Wake Forest Baptist Comprehensive Cancer Center
Current and Recent Students and Postdocs
Current Position: PhD student in Physics, Wake Forest University
Studies generalized allostery in proteins, and is interested in machine learning and statistical analysis of simulations
Current Position: BS student in Engineering, Wake Forest University
Studied machine learning applied to thrombin simulations.
Current Position: Senior Analyst WFBCCC
Going to Tufts for a PhD in physics, to study quantum computing in Fall 2021.
MS Physics Wake Forest University
Studied disease-associated mutations in NEMO
MS Bioinformatics University of Arkansas
BS Mathematics University of Maryland
Current Position: Senior Machine Learning Scientist, Freenome
Currently applies machine learning in the development of biomarkers
PhD Physics, Wake Forest University
MA Computer Science, Wake Forest University
SCB Certificate, Wake Forest University
Studied generalized allostery and machine learning and statistical analysis of simulations.
BS Physics, Sun Yat-Sen University (China)
Current Position: PhD student, Medical Physics, MD Anderson
BS Physics Wake Forest University
Studied sequence-variation in thrombin-binding aptamers
Dr. Ryan Melvin
Current Position: Assistant Professor/Data Scientist, University of Alabama, Birmingham
Currently applies machine learning and data science to biomedical problems
PhD Physics, Wake Forest University
MA Statistics, Wake Forest University
SCB Certificate, Wake Forest University
Studied therapeutic polymers, ion interactions, and machine learning and statistical analysis of simulations.
BS Physics, Birmingham-Southern University
BA Religion-Philosophy, Birmingham-Southern University
Current Position: Senior Research Associate, WFUSOM
Currently: Applies machine learning and computational modeling to radiological problems
PhD Physics, Wake Forest University
Studied zinc fingers, RNA and statistical analysis of simulations. Interested in entrepreneurship.
MS Applied Physics, Northern Arizona University
BS Physics and Astronomy, University of Arizona
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Xidian University
Currently studies lipids and proteins relevant to Alzheimer’s.
Postdoc Physics, Wake Forest University
Studied protein-DNA interactions and coarse-grained models
Ph.D. Physics, Fudan University (China) and IBPC (France)
Current Position: PhD student, Yale University
Currently studying neutrino physics, and is an NSF GRFP awardee
BS Physics Wake Forest University
Studied the effects of binding different chemotherapeutic-DNA complexes on MutSalpha dynamics
Previous students and postdocs will hopefully be added one day.