Alumni Trial — Simmerling Lab

Simmerling Lab Alumni

Click on a name to go to that person’s LinkedIn or other page to see the variety of career outcomes for our alumni.

Postdoctoral Felllows

Viktor Hornak
Kun Song
Lin Fu
Sally Pias
Angela Migues

Associate Director, Novartis
Computational Chemist, AstraZeneca

Associate Professor, New Mexico Tech
Assistant Professor, SUNY Oneonta

Graduate Students

Guanglei Cui	Chemistry PhD, 2003	New simulation methods	Computational Chemist, GSK
Xiaolin Cheng	Chemistry PhD, 2004	Sampling methods	Associate Professor, The Ohio State University
Raphael Geney	Chemistry PhD, 2005	Drug discovery	Patent Liaison, Galapagos
Bentley Strockbine	Pharmacology PhD, 2006	Protein folding	Forensic Psychiatrist
Asim Okur	Chemistry PhD, 2006	Sampling methods	Scientific Information Officer, NIMH
Kun Song	Chemistry PhD, 2007	Protein-DNA recognition	Computational Chemist, AstraZeneca
Daniel Roe	Chemistry PhD, 2007	Sampling methods	Staff Scientist, NIH
Salma Rafi	Chemistry PhD, 2008	Protein-ligand recognition	Principal Scientist, Schrödinger
Lauren Wickstrom	Chemistry PhD, 2009	Sampling and protein folding	Professor, Borough of Manhattan Community College
Fangyu Ding	Biochemistry PhD, 2010	HIV-1 protease
Arthur Campbell	Chemistry PhD, 2011	Protein-DNA recognition	Computational Chemist, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
Christina Bergonzo	Chemistry PhD, 2012	Protein-DNA recognition	Research Chemist, NIST
Yi Shang	Chemistry PhD, 2013	Aspartic protease dynamics	Software Engineer, Schrödinger
Amber Carr	Chemistry PhD, 2013	Sampling methods	Medical Writer, Merck
Carmenza Martinez	Chemistry PhD, 2013	Protein force fields
Cheng-Tsung Lai	Biochemistry PhD, 2014	Drug binding kinetics	Research Investigator, Incyte
Haoquan Li	Chemistry PhD, 2014	Protein-DNA recognition	Software Development Engineer, Amazon
Hai Nguyen	Chemistry PhD, 2015	Implicit solvent models	Principal Scientist, Schrödinger
James Maier	Biochemistry PhD, 2015	Protein force fields	Systems Design Engineer, Viasat, Inc.
Kevin Hauser	Chemistry PhD, 2016	Transcription factor binding	MD Scientist, RubrYc Therapeutics
He Huang	Chemistry PhD, 2018	Implicit solvent models	Applications Scientist, OpenEye Scientific
Junjie Zou	Chemistry PhD, 2019	Free energy & protein folding	Senior Scientist, XtalPi
Chuan Tian	Chemistry PhD, 2019	Protein force fields	Research Scientist, Eli Lilly
Koushik Kasavajhala	Chemistry PhD, 2020	Sampling methods	Senior Scientist, Schrödinger