Patel Group celebrated Lizhu Zhang’s graduation and his contributions to the group. Congratulations, Dr. Zhang, and best wishes for the future!
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2026
2025
The Patel group participated in the Graduate Student Symposium, showcasing their research to industry representatives. Jeongmoon Choi delivered an oral presentation, while Rahul Ramaraju and Mian Qin shared their work through a lightning talk and a poster presentation, respectively. Congratulations to all for their excellent presentations!
Patel Group hosted Dr. Michael Sauer from the Matthias Heyden Group at Arizona State University.
Alexander Johnson successfully defended his dissertation. Congrats, Dr. Johnson!
To honor the graduation of Zac and Lilia, Patel Group held a farewell party at Amish’s home. We celebrated their contributions and wished them well in their future careers. Congratulations to both!
Yusheng Cai, Jeongmoon Choi, Lizhu Zhang, and Amish Patel attended the GRS and GRC on Chemistry and Physics of Liquids. Jeongmoon and Lizhu won Best Poster Awards at GRS and were selected to speak at GRC.
Akash Pallath successfully defended his dissertation. Congrats, Dr. Pallath!
Zac Vicars and Lilia Escobedo’s collaborative paper with the Lee group gets press!
Patel Group celebrated the end of the Spring semester at Ridley Creek State Park!
Jun Lu defended his dissertation. Congratulations!
Lilia Escobedo successfully defended her dissertation. Congrats, Dr. Escobedo!
Zachariah Vicars successfully defended his dissertation. Congrats Dr. Vicars!
2024
Alexa Anderson and Ryan Wozniak joined the group!
Lizhu Zhang attended the Foundations of Molecular Modeling and Simulations conference.
Yusheng Cai and Jeongmoon Choi attended the GRC on Water and Aqueous Solutions.
Amish was promoted to full Professor. Congratulations, Amish!
Jeongmoon Choi received the Penn Prize for Excellence in Graduate Teaching. Congratulations, Jeongmoon!
2023
Ahmad Ali, Charles Hao, Mian Qin, and Rahul Ramaraju joined the group!
Akash Pallath, Amish Patel, and Lizhu Zhang attended the GRC on Chemistry and Physics of Liquids.
Yusheng Cai attended the GRC on Liquid Crystals.
Lilia Escobedo presented at the ACS Colloid and Surface Science Symposium.
Patel Group celebrated the end of the Spring semester with a BBQ at Ridley Creek State Park!
Akash Pallath, Lilia Escobedo, and Zac Vicars attended the 4th NJIT Molecular Simulations Workshop.
Nick Rego and Akash Pallath completed the NSF I-corps program and won the ‘Spirit of NSF I-corps Award’ at the closing ceremony!
Amish gave an invited talk at the APS March Meeting.
2022
Patel Group members went to dinner to celebrate the end of another year!
Amish was presented with the Helmholtz Award from the International Association for the Properties of Water and Steam (IAPWS). He delivered the Helmholtz award lecture at the IAPWS Symposium in Rotorua, New Zealand.
Patel Group members presented at the CBE Graduate Student Symposium.
Lily Wang and Aayush Bendre joined the group!
Aniket Thosar started a job at Reliance in Mumbai, India. Congratulations, Aniket!
Jeongmoon Choi and Amish Patel presented at the Ice Binding Proteins (IBP) Conference 2022. Jeongmoon won the IBP 2022 Biointerphases Presentation Award.
Lilia Escobedo and Aniket Thosar attended the GRC on Water and Aqueous Solutions.
Aniket Thosar received the Early Career Research Award and won the Best Poster Prize at the Foundations of Molecular Modeling and Simulation conference.
Amish Patel co-organized the Telluride Workshop on Hydrophobicity.
Patel Group celebrated the end of the spring semester with a ‘golf-clinic’, food and drinks!
Aniket Thosar and Amish Patel attended the ACS Mid-Atlantic Regional Meeting.
Nick Rego and Akash Pallath completed the Penn I-Corps program.
Amish Patel received the Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching. Congratulations!
Lilia Escobedo received the Penn Prize for Excellence in Teaching by Graduate Students. Congratulations, Lilia!
Aniket Thosar presented at the Statistical Thermodynamics & Molecular Simulations Seminar Series.
2021
Patel group had an evening of fun outdoors - with frisbee, soccer, mahjong, food and drinks - to celebrate being back in-person again!
Amish Patel received the Distinguished Teaching Award from Penn’s AIChE Student Chapter. Congratulations!
2020
Patel Group had its annual holiday party virtually.
Jeongmoon Choi, Alexander Johnson, and Jimin Yoon joined the group!
Nick Rego successfully defended his thesis and is continuing at the Patel group as a postdoc. Congratulations, Nick!
Yusheng Cai joined the group!
Hao Jiang started working as a computational chemist at SC Johnson in Racine, Wisconsin. Congratulations, Hao!
Lizhu Zhang joined the group!
Debdas Dhabal joined the Molinero group at the University of Utah as a postdoc. Congratulations, Debdas!
Lilia Escobedo was awarded the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. Congratulations, Lilia!
2019
Patel Group celebrated its annual holiday party!
Nick Rego and Amish Patel attended the 2019 BMB Retreat at Penn.
Lilia Escobedo, Kevin Juan, Jun Lu, and Akash Pallath joined the group!
Zachariah Vicars presented at Villanova to Undergraduate students interested in participating in the REACT program.
Amish Patel gave an invited talk at the AIChE annual meeting in Orlando, Florida.
Aniket Thosar joined the group!
Amish Patel presented as part of the Van Ness Lecture Series at RPI.
Amish Patel, Debdas Dhabal, Nick Rego, and Sean Marks attended the GRC on the Chemistry and Physics of Liquids.
Sean Marks attended the CSGF Annual Program Review in Arlington.
Amish Patel received the Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award.
Debdas Dhabal presented a poster at the 4th annual Penn Polymer Symposium.
Zachariah Vicars went to Grenoble, France for 10 weeks as part of a collaboration with French REACT partners.
Nick Rego attended the Foundational and Applied Data Science for Molecular and Material Science and Engineering Workshop.
Amish Patel received the 2019 Van Ness Award from the CBE department at RPI.
Patel Group went out to lunch to celebrate Amish getting tenure. Congratulations!
Debdas Dhabal presented at the Symposium on Advanced Simulation Methods: DFT, MD and Beyond at IIT Delhi in New Delhi.
2018
PLUMED INDUS is available for download. Special thanks to Sean Marks for developing this package!
Amish Patel received the Distinguished Teaching Award from Penn’s Student Chapter of AIChE. Congratulations!
Nick Rego and Zachary Varley attended the 2018 Materials and Data Science Hackathon at NC State.
Amish Patel received the ACS OpenEye Outstanding Junior Faculty Award.
2017
Zachariah Vicars received the REACT Trainee Fellowship.
Amish Patel received the 2017 Sloan Fellowship.
Erte Xi successfully defended his thesis and is moving on to a job at Procter and Gamble in Cincinnati. Congrats, Erte!
Suruchi Fialoke successfully defended her thesis and began a job at Pfizer in Boston. Congrats!
Amish Patel received the 2017 NSF CAREER award!
2016
Sean Marks received the DOE CSGF Fellowship. Congratulations!
Amish Patel received the 2016 Berkeley Statistical Mechanics Meeting Young Investigator Award!
2015
Erte Xi and Rick Remsing’s paper on the role of fluctuations in modulating the pathways to dewetting in hydrophobic confinement gets press!
Amish Patel received the Kaufman Foundation New Investigator Research Award!
2014
Erte Xi won the Best Poster Prize at the 2014 Gordon Research Conference on “Water and Aqueous Solutions”. Congratulations Erte!
Amish Patel’s paper on characterizing the hydrophobicity of complex proteins using a novel, highly efficient method was featured on the cover of the February 13, 2014 issue of the Journal of Physical Chemistry B.
