Meet our research team

    Ishan Ajmera

    Postdoctoral Researcher

    Douglas Friedel

    Research Programmer

    Mathieu Gaillard

    Graduate Student

    Bosheng Li

    Graduate Student

    Ivan Lopez Valdivia

    Graduate Student

    Megan Leigh Matthews

    Assistant Professor

    Justin McGrath

    Adjunct Assistant Professor

    Het Patel

    Graduate Student

    Bin Peng

    Postdoctoral Researcher

    Ximin Piao

    Graduate Student

    Traci Quigg Thomas

    Project Manager

    Rizwan Riaz

    Postdoctoral Researcher

    Sanu Shameer

    Postdoctoral Researcher

    Dilkaran Singh

    Graduate Student

    Alexandria Tran

    Graduate Student

    Yu Wang

    Postdoctoral Researcher

    Wang Zhou

    Postdoctoral Researcher

    Former Advisers and Research Team Members

    • Gabrielle Allen, Associate Professor of Astronomy and NCSA Director of Computing and Data Sciences
    • Mike Bobak, Senior Research Programmer, NCSA
    • Floor Boerwinkel, Project Manager
    • Kalina Borkiewicz, Visualization Programmer, Advanced Visualization Lab, NCSA
    • Ghana Challa, Postdoctoral Researcher, Plant Biology
    • AJ Christensen, Visualization Programmer, Advanced Visualization Lab, NCSA
    • Donna Cox, Director of the Advanced Scientific Visualization Lab, NCSA, Professor in the Department of Art and Design
    • Apollo Ellis, Ph.D. Candidate in Computer Science
    • John Hart, Professor in the Department of Computer Science
    • Colleen Heinemann, Graduate Student, Informatics Institute
    • Victor Jongeneel, Director of Bioinformatics at the Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology (IGB)
    • Kavya Kannan, Ph.D. Candidate in Plant Biology
    • Dan Katz, NCSA Assistant Director for Scientific Software and Applications
    • Christine Kirkpatrick, Executive Director of the National Data Service
    • Arjuna Lal, B.S. Candidate in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
    • Mike Lambert, Research Programmer, National Data Service at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA)
    • Bertram Ludaescher, Professor of Library and Information Science and Director of the Center for Informatics Research in Science and Scholarship
    • James O’Dwyer, Assistant Professor of Plant Biology
    • Don Ort, Professor of Plant Biology
    • Balaji Panneerselvam, Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
    • Cameron Pittelkow, Assistant Professor of Crop Sciences
    • David Raila, Senior Research Programmer for NCSA National Data Service
    • H. Edward Seidel, Director of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications
    • Rachel Shekar, Project Manager
    • Stuti Shrivastava, Ph.D. Candidate in Plant Biology. Read more about Stuti and her work >>>
    • Diwakar Shukla, Assistant Professor in the Department Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
    • Venkat Srinivasan, Postdoctoral Researcher at Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
    • Ranjita Thapa, Postdoctoral Scholar, University of Nebraska
    • Yiwen Xu, M.S. Candidate in Computer Science
    • Xiyu Yang, PhD candidate in Plant Biology, Pennsylvania State University
    • Xinguang Zhu, Group Leader at the Institute of Computational Biology in the Chinese Academy of Science
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