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“Solvation of aromatic hydrocarbons in supercooled aqueous droplets" (completed) 2023

“Stability of protein complexes in solution” (completed) 2023

“Effect of low temperature in the protein interactions” (completed) 2023

“On the Origins of Life - Modelling the initial stages of complex coacervate droplet formation" (completed) 2023
Awards Received: (1) Poster award in the Medical Biophysics Symposium (Institutional); (2) The thesis was one of the 5 winning theses for Western Libraries Undergraduate Research Awards in 2023 competition (Institutional)

“Intrinsically disordered proteins in supercooled solution” (completed) 2022

“The Mechanism of β-Trypsin and BPTI Encounter Complex Formation in Solution” (completed) 2022

“Path Integral Molecular Dynamics of the Proton Transfer Reaction between Triptophan and Histidine” (completed) 2021

“Study of Cholera Toxin Assembly Mechanism by Molecular Dynamics”(completed) 2021

"Effect of Explicit and Implicit Solvents in the Binding Free Energies of Protein Complexes"(competed) 2020

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"Computational modelling of water clusters relevant to the molecular mechanism of thunderclouds"(competed) 2020
Awards Recieved : Outstanding Oral Presentation in Physical, Theoretical and Computational Chemistry, SOUSCC 2020

"Exploration of the Effects of Confinement on the Structure and Binding Energy of Protein Complexes with Molecular Dynamics"(competed) 2020

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"The Implementation of Machine Learning to Predict the Solubility of Simple Organic Molecules"(competed) 2020
Awards Recieved : Alumni Gold Medal, Chemistry, UWO

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"A computational characterization of the distribution of multi-valent ions within highly charged aerosol droplets"(competed) 2020

"Modelling of proton transfer reactions in a bulk solution of acetonitrile molecules using path integral method"(competed) 2020

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"Modelling of protein-protein interactions."(competed) 2019

"Protein interaction networks."(competed) 2019

"Effect of ions in the stability of protein complexes."(competed) 2019

"Interplay between hydrophilic/hydrophobic interactions in droplets."(competed) 2018 Awards Recieved : Accepted for graduate studies in computational chemistry in the Penn State University, US.

"Do star formations of droplets establish a growth pattern for snowflakes?"(competed) 2017

"Modelling of the interactions of proteins in vapour-liquid interface."(competed) 2017

"Characterization of the "star" morphologies of charged droplets"(competed) 2016

"Treatment of Electrostatic Interactions in Molecular Simulations"(competed) 2015

"Monte Carlo Modelling of Charged Nanodroplets"(competed) 2014

"Effect of charge distribution on the stability of droplets"(competed) 2014
Awards Recieved :
(i) 2nd Prize for his presentation on the thesis project in the SOUSCC conference, Analytical Chemistry Session, March 29, 2014, University of Windsor and
(ii) Hypercube Scholar Award, UWO)

"Interactions of complexes of macromolecules in charged nanodroplets"(competed) 2014 Awards Recieved :
(i) 1st Prize in the SOUSCC conference, Physical Chemistry Session, March 29, 2014, University of Windsor,
(ii) received the Ontario Graduate Scholarship but declined,
(iii) Western Gold Medal for Honours Specialisation in Chemical Biology

"Charge-Induced Instability in Droplets with Charged Macromolecular Complexes - Study of siRNA in Aqueous Droplets"(competed) 2013

"Computational modeling of the Solvation and Diffusion of Doxorubicin and Fluorouracil in Water"(competed) 2012

"Analysis of the structure of PEG-(Na+)n in a water droplet by molecular dynamics."(competed) 2011

"Molecular dynamics methods for simple Lennard-Jones systems and applications in diffusion in zeolites"(competed) 2009

"Sampling of reactive paths for computations of reaction rates in the condensed phase. Applications in reactions in clusters."(competed) 2005

"Equilibrium and dynamic properties of peptides in solution."(competed) 2005

"Molecular Dynamics study of alanine dipeptide in aqueous neutral and charged droplets."(competed) 2004 Awards Recieved : Gold Medal, Biochemistry, UWO

"Testing of Sampling methods for reactive paths for computations of reaction rates in solution."(competed) 2004

"Properties of (NH3)(H2O)n(n = 1 - 4) clusters on a carbon nanotube and confinement effects on the structure of a fluid"(competed) 2004

"Fragmentation processes of charged droplets."(competed) 2002

"Efficient Monte Carlo schemes for computer simulations of polymer systems."(competed) 2002

"Diffusion dynamics in liquid clusters."(competed) 2000
Awards Recieved:
First prize in Physical Chemistry in the conference of Southwestern Ontario Universities for fourth year undergraduate student projects.

"Automated keyword search in scientific literature."(competed) 2020