Awarded the "2025 Summer Graduate Student Researcher (GSR) Award" by Graduate Studies, UC Davis
MAY 2025
The pre-print of our work titled "Accelerating free energy exploration using parallelizable Gaussian accelerated molecular dynamics (ParGaMD)" has been posted on ChemRxiv- Click here
MARCH 2025
Presented a poster on "Bridging timescales in protein simulations using Parallelized Gaussian Accelerated Molecular Dynamics (ParGaMD)", which was one of the 7 finalists to compete for the "NVIDIA GPU Award" at the ACS Spring Meeting 2025 - Click here
Presided the "Quantum Mechanics" evening session on March 26 at the ACS Spring Meeting 2025
JANUARY 2025
Awarded the "Trainee Travel Award" worth $1500 by Duke Center for HIV Structural Biology (DCHSB) to participate in the ACS Spring Meeting 2025
Our work on "Bridging timescales in protein simulations using Parallelized Gaussian Accelerated Molecular Dynamics (ParGaMD)" is selected as one of the 7 finalists to compete for the "NVIDIA GPU Award" at the ACS Spring Meeting 2025
SEPTEMBER 2024
Our work titled "The Stability and Dynamics of Zeolite-confined Gold Nanoclusters" has been published in the Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation - Click here
AUGUST 2024
Awarded the UCD Graduate Research Award worth $3000 by UC Davis
JULY 2024
Presented a 10 minute invited talk and poster titled "The Stability and Dynamics of Zeolite-confined Au nanoclusters" at theComputational Chemistry Gordon Research Seminar (GRS)on July 21
JUNE 2024
Presented a poster titled "The Stability and Dynamics of Zeolite-confined Au nanoclusters" at the CeRCaS Spring Meeting 2024 on June 5
MAY 2024
Presented a 20 minute talk titled "Bridging timescales in protein simulations using Parallelized Gaussian Accelerated Molecular Dynamics (ParGaMD)" at theDuke Center for HIV Structural Biology Annual SAB Meeting 2024on May 30
Presented a 20 minute talk titled "Elucidating the fluxionality and dynamics of zeolite-confined Au nanoclusters using machine learning potentials" at theWest Coast Theoretical Chemistry Meeting 2024on May 5
MARCH 2024
Passed the Qualifying Examination (Advanced to Candidacy) on March 18
FEBRUARY 2024
Presented a poster titled "Bridging time and length scales in catalysis using machine learning and enhanced sampling methods " at the UC Davis-Sandia Climate Security Symposium 2024on February 27
Presented a poster titled "“From Hydrogen carriers to Zero-emission recyclable oils " at the UC Davis-Sandia Climate Security Symposium 2024 on February 27
DECEMBER 2023
Mentored an undergraduate student, Vaishnavi Kulkarni on “Conceptual design of Methanol generation and utilization for extended Mars explorations” as a part of the E-SEARCH mentorship program from October 2 2023 to December 7 2023
AUGUST 2023
Presented a 20 minute talk titled "Elucidating the fluxionality and dynamics of zeolite-confined Au nanoclusters using machine learning potentials" at the"Multiscale Modeling in Catalysis" session of ACS Fall 2023 meetingon August 13
Mentored a High school student, Alistair King on the project “Investigating the Conformational Structures of Particulate Methane Monooxygenase (pMMO) Through Molecular Dynamics (MD) Simulations” as a part of the Young Scholar Program (YSP) from June 15 2023 to August 1 2023
JULY 2023
Attended "Deep Modeling for Molecular Simulation 2023" organised byChemistry in Solution and at Interfaces at Princeton University from July 11-14
JUNE 2023
Awarded 3500 GPU hours by NSF ACCESS to study "Machine learning-based computational methods development to study catalytic and enzyme systems"
Attended "Fundamentals and Applications of Density Functional Theory 2023" organised by Institute for Computational Molecular Science Education (i-CoMSE) at Boise State Universityfrom June5-9
MAY 2023
Presented a 3 minute lightning talk and a poster titled "Elucidating the fluxionality and dynamics of zeolite-confined Au nanoclusters using machine learning potentials" at the CeRCaS Spring Meeting 2023on May 10
Presented a poster titled "Elucidating the fluxionality and dynamics of zeolite-confined Au nanoclusters using machine learning potentials" at the West Coast Theoretical Chemistry Meeting 2023 on May 6
APRIL 2023
The abstract titled "Elucidating the fluxionality and dynamics of zeolite-confined Au nanoclusters using machine learning potentials" was accepted for theACS Fall 2023 Meeting scheduled in August 2023
MARCH 2023
Attended "Enhanced Sampling Virtual School 2023" organised by Institute for Computational Molecular Science Education (i-CoMSE) from March 20-24
JANUARY 2023
Presented a talk on "Weighted Ensemble Method" during the weekly Rosetta Brainstorm meeting on January 12
NOVEMBER 2022
Appointed as a Graduate Student Researcher (GSR) co-advised by Prof. Surl-Hee (Shirley) Ahn and Prof. Ambarish Kulkarni
SEPTEMBER 2022
Joined the University of California, Davis as a PhD student in the Department of Chemical Engineering.