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Alex (MatSE sophomore) will be pursuing independent study in the Ferguson Lab exploring the computational design of mutant lasso peptides as “molecular thermometers”.

Prof. Ferguson makes the Spring 2013 List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent by their Students as the instructor of MSE 458 – Polymer Physical Chemistry. Greg Hart and Bryce Thurston …

POP REU students Ali Hajimirza (U. Oklahoma, CS) and Abhijit Pujare (Yale, EE/CS) join the Ferguson Lab for the summer to develop parallelized implementations of nonlinear graph matching algorithms.

Bryce Thurston (Physics; B.S., Colorado School of Mines) joins the Ferguson Lab to complete his PhD research. Bryce is studying the hierarchical self-assembly of organic electronics using molecular dynamics simulations …

After performing some beautiful work in developing a new graph matching algorithm based on nonlinear machine learning of graph topologies, Jingtian Hu has graduated from UIUC MSE and will be …

Prof. Ferguson and Prof. R.E. Lee DeVille are awarded seed funding from the UIUC Initiative for Mathematical Sciences and Engineering to support their work on the nonlinear inference of protein …

Prof. Ferguson describes the coupling of machine learning tools and statistical thermodynamics theory to infer protein folding pathways and viral fitness landscapes.

Shao (MatSE junior) will be pursuing his UG thesis in the Ferguson Lab working on an experimental/computational collaboration with Prof. JJ Cheng on positively charged helical peptides.

Prof. Ferguson describes the coupling of machine learning tools and statistical thermodynamics theory to infer protein folding pathways and viral fitness landscapes.

Greg Hart (Physics; B.S., BYU Physics) joins the Ferguson Lab to pursue PhD research. Greg will be working on the development of data driven models of viral fitness, and their …