Group News
2020
<03/16> Recent graduate Kassandra Schmidt begins a new position in Larsen & Toubro. Congratulations Kassandra!
<03/06> Akash Banerjee receives Travel Award from the School of Graduate Studies-CBE. Congratulations Akash!
2019
<05/28> NSF REU student Acacia Tam joins the group for summer research. Welcome Acacia!
<01/22> Nour Srouji joins the research group for her M.S. (with thesis) research. Welcome Nour!
<01/13> Akash Banerjee receives Travel Award from School of Graduate Studies-CBE. Congratulations Akash!
2018
<12/13> Srinivas Mushnoori receives Travel Award from School of Graduate Studies-CBE. Congratulations Srinivas!
<11/25> Srinivas Mushnoori serves as a symposium assistant at the MRS Fall 2018 meeting in Boston, MA.
<11/25> Dr. Dutt's presents a poster at the MRS Fall 2018 meeting in Boston, MA. The poster was nominated for the Best Poster Award.
Congratulations, Dr. Dutt!
<11/25> Akash Banerjee presents oral presentations at the MRS Fall 2018 meeting in Boston, MA.
<11/25> Srinivas Mushnoori presents oral presentation at the MRS Fall 2018 meeting in Boston, MA.
<11/16> Xiang Yu has successfully passed his doctoral defense on Nov. 16, 2018. Congratulations, Dr. Yu!
<10/31> Srinivas Mushnoori receives Travel Award from School of Graduate Studies and Department of Chemical and Biochemical
Engineering. Congratulations Srinivas!
<09/05> Graduate student Srinivas Mushnoori releases RepEx 3.0.1. Congratulations Srinivas!
<08/19> Srinivas Mushnoori presents his research at the 256th ACS National meeting in Boston, MA.
<08/03> NSF REU student Zachary Finkel completes his summer research in the Dutt group. Good Luck Zach!
<07/01> Srinivas receives renewal of his Molecular Sciences Software Institute Phase II graduate fellowship. Congratulations Srinivas!
<05/30> NSF REU student Zachary Finkel joins the group for summer research. Welcome Zach!
<05/25> Akash passes his qualifying exam and transfers to PhD program. Congratulations Akash!
<01/01> Srinivas receives Molecular Sciences Software Institute Phase II graduate fellowship. Congratulations Srinivas!
2017
<11/27> Dr. Dutt presents a poster presentation at the MRS Fall 2017 meeting in Boston, MA.
<11/02> Srinivas Mushnoori receives Travel Award from Graduate School. Congratulations Srinivas!
<09/29> Graduate student Kassandra Schmidt receives Graduate Fellowship for the 2017-2018 Academic Year from the New Jersey
Space Grant Consortium. Congratulations Kassandra!
<09/13> Masters student Jia Li successfully defends her thesis. Congratulations Jia!
<09/01> Group alumnus Vyshnavi Karra joins Doctoral program in Northeastern University. Good Luck Vyshnavi!
<09/01> Group alumnus Bin Zhang joins Doctoral program in Lehigh University. Good Luck Bin!
<09/01> Group alumnus Kai Jin joins Doctoral program in Purdue University. Good Luck Kai!
<09/01> Group alumnus Sarah Libring joins Doctoral program in Purdue University. Good Luck Sarah!
<08/20> Srinivas present multiple poster and oral presentations at the 254th ACS National Meeting in Washington, D.C.
Well done Srinivas!
<08/20> Dr. Dutt chairs an oral presentation session at the 254th ACS National Meeting in Washington, D.C.
<08/20> Dr. Dutt presents oral presentation at the 254th ACS National Meeting in Washington, D.C.
<08/15> Masters student Vyshnavi Karra successfully defends her thesis. Congratulations Vyshnavi!
<07/21> NSF REU student Emran Rashid gives an oral presentation during the RiSE mini-symposium.
<07/20> Masters student Bin Zhang successfully defends his thesis. Congratulations Bin!
<05/30> NSF REU student Emran Rashid joins the group for summer research. Welcome Emran!
<05/14> Kai and Sarah graduate in the Class of 2017. Congratulations to Kai and Sarah!
<04/06> Dr. Dutt promoted to rank Associate Professor with tenure effective July 1, 2017. Congratulations Dr. Dutt!
<04/04> Srinivas receives software fellowship from the Molecular Sciences Software Institute. Congratulations Srinivas!
<03/30> Dr. Dutt gives a colloquium at the Department of Physics at Lehigh University.
<03/24> Sarah Libring wins second place in the poster competition in the 2017 AIChe Mid-Atlantic conference. Congratulations Sarah!
<03/24> Sarah Libring presents a poster on her research at the 2017 AIChe Mid-Atlantic conference.
<02/07> Dr. Dutt receives the NSF CAREER award. Congratulations Dr. Dutt!
<02/01> Doctoral student Xiang Yu presents his research at the Gordon Research Conference on Complex Active & Adaptive Material Systems
2016
<12/15> The Dutt group begins a collaboration with the Sagar Khare group. We look forward to working with Prof. Khare.
<12/15> The Dutt group welcomes new graduate students Kassandra Schmidt, Tulsi Char and Akash Banerjee, and undergraduate students Tianyou Mou. Welcome, folks!
<12/03> Srinivas Mushnoori nominated for best poster at the Fall 2016 Meeting of the Materials Research Society for his poster titled "MARTINI coarse grained simulations of Ultrashort Peptide aggregates." Congratulations!
<12/03> Srinivas Mushnoori and Xiang Yu present their research at the Fall 2016 Meeting of the Materials Research Society.
<11/15> Vyshnavi Karra wins 2nd place, Materials Science and Engineering Division IX, AIChE Student Poster Competition for her poster "Self-Aggregation of Functionalized Capsids Using Coarse Grained Molecular Dynamics" Congratulations!
<11/15> Vyshnavi Karra, Sarah Libring and Yejoon Seo present their research at AICHE 2016.
<11/15> Prof. Meenakshi Dutt presents talk at AICHE 2016.
<10/15> The Dutt group begins a collaboration with the Vikas Nanda group. We look forward to working with Prof. Nanda.
<09/01> Dr. Dutt awarded an EAGER from the National Science Foundation.
<09/01> Xiaolei Chu joins Doctoral program at the University of California at Davis.
<07/14> Vyshnavi Karra accepted to be the graduate mentor for the Reilly-Douglass Engineering Living and Learning Community (RDELLC) for the 2016-2017 academic year at Rutgers. Congratulations!
<05/03> Dr. Dutt has a seminar at the Department of Bioengineering in University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth.
<04/21> Sarah Libring has got accepted into a NSF funded REU program at Purdue University starting in the coming May. Congradulations, Sarah!
<04/18> Dutt Research Laboratory youtube channel goes live! Go check our research movies!
<04/08> Dr. Dutt gives an invited talk at the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at North Carolina State University.
<04/07> Dr. Dutt gives a guest lecture on "Dissipative Particle Dynamics: Perspectives, Framework and Applications" in a course offered by Professor Keith Gubbins at the Department of Chemical Engineering at North Carolina State University.
<04/05> Dr. Dutt gives an invited talk at The George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology
<03/28> Congratulations to Dr. Fikret Aydin and Geetartha Uppaladadium for contributing to the cover artwork of Biointerfaces Volume 143, 2016!
<03/25> Congratulations to Xiaolei Chu for successfully defending his M.S. thesis!
<03/21> Congratulations to Geetartha Uppaladadium for successfully defending his M.S. thesis!
<03/01> Congratulations to Dr. Leebyn Chong for his position in the National Energy Technology Laboratory, Pittsburgh!
2015
Dr. Dutt co-organizes symposium on Modeling and Theory Driven Design of Soft Materials at the Materials Research Society Fall 2015 meeting.
Xiang Yu is awarded graduate student travel award. Congratulations!
Xiang Yu is awarded Materials Research Society travel award for his oral presentation.
Xiang Yu is a symposium assistant at the Materials Research Society Fall 2015 meeting.
Our poster by Xiang Yu, Xiaolei Chu, Joseph greenstein, Fikret Aydin and Geetertha Uppaladadium wins best poster award at the Materials Research Society Fall 2015 meeting. Excellent job!
Dr. Dutt presents at AIChe 2015 annual meeting in Salt Lake Cit.
Fikret Aydin joins a postdoctorl position at University of Chicago! Good luck Fikret!
Geetartha joins internship at Aurex Laboratories. Good luck Geetarthat!
Dr. Dutt gives an invited talk at Northeastern University in Septemper!
Our undergraduate members Joseph Greenstein and Sarah Libring will continue working in our group as Aresty Research Assistants.
Fikret Aydin has successfully denfended his doctoral thesis on Sep 10th, 2015. Congratuations for your new title, Dr. Aydin!
Leebyn Chong has successfully passed his doctoral defense on Aug 25, 2015. Congratuations, Dr. Chong!
Dr. Dutt co-organizes a symposium on "Theory & Modeling of Nanoparticles Interactions With Biomolecules & Polymers" at the 250th ACS National Meeting and Exposition in Boston, MA from August 16 - 20, 2015
Leebyn Chong and Fikret Aydin presents their researches at ACS National Meeting & Exposition. Congratulations for both of you!
Gabriel J. Rodriguez presents his research at REU Symposium. Congratulations!
Srinivas Mushnoori presents his collaboratory research (with Leebyn Chong) at Advances in Functional Materials 2015, Stony Brook Universty. Congratulations!
Gabriel J. Rodriguez joins our group through RiSE summer programe. Xiaolei will be his mentor. Welcome, Gabriel!
Fikret Aydin has got an internship at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Well done!
Leebyn Chong and Xiaolei Chu presents their researches at NCS 4 workshop, Stony Brook. Congratulations!
Dr. Dutt wins the OpenEye Junior Faculty ACS COMP award for Fall 2015. Congratulations!
Michael Sebastiano gives his Slade public presentation about his research in our group. He is about to graduate!
Joseph Greenstein and Vyshnavi Karra present their researches at the Annual Undergraduate Research Day poster session.
Fikret Aydin and Leebyn Chong present their work at the CBE Research Symposium. Congratulations!
Fikret Aydin and Xiaolei Chu present their researches at the 2nd Annual Research Fair of Rutgers Society of Women Engineers. Well done!
Fikret Aydin, Xiaolei Chu and Geetartha Uppaladadium present their studies at Rutgers Discovery Informatics Institute Open House. Congratulations!
Xiang Yu, Bin Zhang and Jia Li join the group as graduate members. Welcome to the family!
Leebyn Chong, Fikret Aydin and Xiaolei Chu present their researches at NCS3 worshop, NJIT. Congratulations!
2014
Leebyn Chong wins NSF support to present his talk at the MRS Fall 2014 meeting. Congratulations Leebyn!
Sarah Libring wins a tablet at Researchers Present. Congratulations Sarah!
Srinivas Mushnoori presents his collaboratory research (with Leebyn Chong) to juniors in Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics II. Well Done Srinivas!
Leebyn Chong presents his research at the AIChe Annual 2014 meeting.
Fikret Aydin presents his research at the AIChe Annual 2014 meeting.
Vyshnavi Karra presents her research at the AIChe Annual 2014 meeting.
Aresty Scholar Vyshnavi Karra to present her research at poster session at the AIChe Annual 2014 meeting.
Leebyn Chong wins Rutgers Graduate Student Travel Award to attend AIChe 2014. Congratulations Leebyn!
Fikret Aydin wins Rutgers Graduate Student Travel Award to attend AIChe 2014. Congratulations Fikret!
Vyshnavi Karra wins Rutgers Arest Center Travel Award to attend AIChe 2014. Congratulations Vyshnavi!
Leebyn Chong passed Doctoral Proposal Exam! Congratulations Leebyn!
Fikret Aydin passed Doctoral Proposal Exam! Congratulations Fikret!
Orlando Mulero visits group as NSF REU student from University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus! Welcome Orlando!
Sarah Libring awarded Douglass College STEM Summer Stipend. Congratulations Sarah!
Congratulations to Andrew Rullo for graduating!
Sarah Libring awarded Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation Research Stipend for Spring 2014. Congratulations Sarah!
Dr. Dutt co-organizes a symposium on Modeling and Theory-Driven Design of Soft Materials in the Materials Reseach Society Fall 2014 meeting.
Fikret Aydin is a symposium Assistant for Symposium A: Modeling and Theory-Driven Design of Soft Materials in the Materials Reseach Society Fall 2014 meeting.
2013
Leebyn Chong presents his research at the Materials Research Society Fall 2013 meeting.
Fikret Aydin presents his research at the Materials Research Society Fall 2013 meeting.
Leebyn Chong presents his research at the AIChe Annual 2013 meeting.
Fikret Aydin presents his research at the AIChe Annual 2013 meeting.
Leebyn Chong wins Rutgers Graduate Student Travel Award to attend AIChe 2013. Congratulations Leebyn!
Fikret Aydin wins Rutgers Graduate Student Travel Award to attend AIChe 2013. Congratulations Fikret!
C.M. Vidyalakshmi successfully defends her Masters Thesis! Congratulations Vidyalakshmi!
Bharatram Muralidharan successfully defends his Masters Thesis! Congratulations Bharat!
Congratulations to Paul Ludford for his new job!
Congratulations to Evan Koufos for joining Graduate School in Lehigh!
Congratulations to Sang Yun Lee for his new job!
Congratulations to Diane Kao for her new job!
Congratulations to Diane Kao, Evan Koufos, Sang Yun Le and Paul Ludford for graduating from Rutgers!