YSL Group Members
Meet all the current group members here. For a list of past members that have contributed their work to the YSL Lab, see Lab Alumni. If you are interested in joining the YSL Group, please follow the steps at the bottom of the page.
Research Associate
Dr. Jiayuan Miao
(jiayuan.miao at tufts.edu, 2017–)
· B.S., Physics, Shandong University, China
· M.S., Experimental High Energy Physics, Shandong University, China
· Ph.D., Physics, Case Western Reserve University
· ORCID 0000-0003-1112-1927
Graduate Students
Nomindari Bayaraa
(nomindari.bayaraa at tufts.edu, 2021–)
· B.S., Chemistry, Columbia College
Umut Çilesiz
(umut.cilesiz at tufts.edu, 2024–)
· B.S., Chemistry and Physics, Boğaziçi University
Saki Doi
(saki.doi at tufts.edu, 2024–)
· B.S., Biochemistry, Brandeis University
Minh Ho
(minh.ho at tufts.edu, 2021–)
· B.S., Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (with minor in Chemistry), University of Massachusetts Amherst
· ORCID 0009-0000-8054-0362
Postdoc Positions
Postdocs in our group are usually computational chemists experienced in peptide molecular dynamics (MD) simulations and machine learning (ML). Postdoc candidates must have a strong foundation in both MD and ML and extensive experience in their applications; experience with enhanced sampling methods, GROMACS, and PLUMED is a plus.
If you are interested or know someone who might be interested, please send along (or have them send along) a CV and three relevant publications to Prof. Lin at yu-shan.lin@tufts.edu
Graduate Students Interested in the YSL Group
We’re accepting graduate students this year!
Although some modeling or simulation experience is great, you don’t need to have prior computational chemistry experience to join our group as a graduate student! We will train you from the beginning and get you up to speed. As long as you love peptides and proteins and are not afraid of math, physics, and computers, we will get you there! Feel free to reach out to Prof. Lin at yu-shan.lin@tufts.edu and any graduate students in the group. You can find their emails on this page.
High School & Undergraduate Students Interested in the YSL Group
Unfortunately, we are not accepting high school or undergraduate students at the moment.
For Tufts undergraduates looking for research opportunities in the Chemistry Department: Check out the chemistry faculty members’ research websites. You can find them here and apply on the chemistry department website here.
For other research opportunities in computational science at Tufts: Look up Tim Atherton in Physics, Lenore Cowen and Soha Hassoun in Computer Science, and Prashant Deshlahra in Chemical and Biological Engineering.