Wayne State University, Detroit, MI (B.S., Mathematics, 1982); NYU, Courant Inst., New York, NY (Applied
Mathematics, M.S., 1984 and Ph.D., 1987)
Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Chemistry, NYU (2000 -); Associate Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute (1994 - 2003); Affiliate, Biochemistry Department, NYU Medical Center (1996 -); Professor of Chemistry, Mathematics, and Computer Sciences, NYU (1996 -); Assistant (until 1992) and Associate (until 1996) Professor of Chemistry and Mathematics, Faculty of Arts and Science and Courant, NYU (1989 - 1996); Weizmann Institute Postdoctoral Fellow, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel (1988); NSF Mathematical Sciences Postdoctoral Fellow, Courant, NYU (1987 - 1989) Honors and Awards
Agnes Fay Morgan Research Award in Chemistry, Iota Sigma Pi National Honor Society (2003); Burroughs Wellcome Visiting Professor, University of North Carolina, (2000 - 2001); John Simon Guggenheim Fellow (2000 - 2001); AWIS Outstanding Woman in Science (2000); Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow (1993 - 1995); NYU Distinguished Recent Alumna (1993); NSF Presidential Young Investigator (1991 - 1996); Whitaker Fellow (1991 - 1994); Searle Scholar (1991 - 1994); Whitehead Presidential Fellow, NYU (1991); Marie Curie American Fellow, American Association for University Women Educational Foundation (1990 - 1991); Kurt O. Friedrichs Prize for Outstanding Dissertation in Mathematics, Courant (1988); Jay Krakauer Prize for Outstanding Dissertation in the Sciences, NYU (1988); NSF Mathematical Sciences Postdoctoral Fellow (1987 - 1989); American Cancer Society Postdoctoral Fellow (declined) (1987 - 1990); Deans Dissertation Fellow, NYU (1986 - 1987); Phi Beta Kappa, National Honor Society, Honor Society, Graduation with Excellence in Mathematics and French, Outstanding Leadership Award in University Programs, Wayne State University(1982); Wayne State University Merit Scholar (Four-Year Tuition) (1978 - 1982) Five Related Publications
Advisory Committee Member - NSFs Advanced Computational Infrastructure (PACI) Resource Allocation
Committee (2002 - ); NPACI (National Partnerships for Advanced Computational Infrastructure)
Panel Review Board, NSF (2002 - ); Members-at-Large of the AAAS Section A (Mathematics) (2002 -
2005); NIH Special Focus Group (convened by Elias Zerhouni) (2002); Faculty of 1000, Structural Biology/
Theory and Simulation (2001 - ); NIH Special Study Section B, NIGMS (2001); NIH Site Visit panel,
Intramural Review of Computational Applications Program (SAIC), NCI (2000); NIH BBCA study section
(1999); SIAM Life Sciences Activity Group Steering Committee (1999 - ); NSF/NIH/DOE panel, Next
Generation Biology: the Role of Next Generation Computing (1998); NSF Academic Research Infrastructure
Program (1996); Burroughs Wellcome Fund, Advisory Committee for Interface Program Between the
Physical and Biological Sciences (1995-2000); AMS-SIAM Committee on Applied Mathematics (1995 -
2000); SIAMs representative to the AMS-ASA-AWM-IMS-MAA-NCTM-SIAM Committee on Women in
the Mathematical Sciences (1994 - 2002); NIH RAC Board for the Parallel Structural Biology Project of the
San Diego Supercomputing Center and UCSD (1994 - ); NIH Board of Scientific Counselors, National Library
of Medicine (1994 - 1999); National Research Council, NAS, Report on Mathematical Challenges from
Theoretical/Computational Chemistry, (1994 - 1995); NSF Biophysics Division (1993 - 1995); NIH Special
Review Committee for Structural Biology as Applied to the Problem of Targeted Drug Design for the Treatment
of AIDS Initiative (1992); NSF Advanced Scientific Computing Postdoctoral Research Associateship
Program (1991 - 1994)
Editorial Boards - J. Comp. Phys. (1997 - ); Springer Verlag Lecture Notes in Comp. Sci. and Engin.
(1996 - ); J. Theo. Biol. (1995 - )
Organizer/Co-Organizer - Second SIAM Life Sciences Conference (2004); Geometric and PDE Modeling
Problems in the Life Sciences, PRIMA, Hawaii (2004); Mathematical and Computational Approaches
to Biomolecular Simulations, MSRI, Berkeley (2003); Workshop on Modeling and Simulation for Materials,
Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics (IPAM), UCLA (2002); First SIAM Life Sciences Conference,
Boston (2002); SIAM Computational Sciences Meeting, Washington, D.C. (2000); Third International Symposium
on Algorithms for Macromolecular Modeling, New York (2000); International Conference on Multiscale
Methods, Weizmann Institute (2000); DIMACS/PMMB Workshop on DNA Topology (1997); IMA
Special Year in High Performance Computing (1997); Molecular Dynamics Minisymposium, SIAM, Charlotte
(1995); Multigrid Techniques with Applications to Molecular Dynamics, Weizmann Institute (1995);
Program in Mathematical Biology, MSRI Berkeley (1992)
Collaborators: W. A. Beard (NIEHS), S. Broyde (NYU), D. A. Case (Scripps Research Institute),
E. Fluder (Merck), B. Roux (Cornell/Weill Medical College), S. Singh (Merck), A. Tropsha (UNC), A.
Vologodskii (NYU), S. H. Wilson (NIEHS), C. Wolberger (Hopkins)
Graduate and Postdoctoral Advisors: S. Broyde (NYU, doctoral advisor), S. Lifson (deceased, Weizmann
Institute, postdoctoral advisor), M. L. Overton (NYU, co-doctoral advisor), C. S. Peskin (NYU, doctoral
advisor)
Thesis Advisor and Postgraduate-Scholar Sponsor: K. Arora (student), D. Barash (postdoc) E. Barth
(Kalamazoo College), P. Batcho (Los Alamos National Lab), D. Beard (University of Washington), P. Derreumaux
(CNRS, France), H. H. Gan (postdoc), J. Huang (VeraChem, MA), N. Kim (student), H. Jian
(Citibank, NYC), Y.-P. Liu (Western Michigan University), M. Mandziuk (Long Island University), B.
Mishra (Wall Street, NYC), X. Qian (Morgan Stanley, NYC), R. Radhakrishnan (postdoc), A. Sandu (Michigan
Technological University), N. Shiffeldrim (student), D. Strahs (Marymount Manhattan College), D. Xie
(University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee), L. Yang (postdoc), L. Zaslavsky (Microsoft, WA), Q. Zhang (student)