The overall research interest in our group is to understand the thermodynamic and kinetic behavior of water and aqueous solutions using state-of-the-art tools of molecular modeling, computer simulations and statistical mechanics. The interests are wide-ranging and include topics such as hydrophobicity, surface-water interactions, nucleation, metastability, protein-surface interactions, self-assembly processes and data-mining. We are currently focused on three specific problems that are motivated by the 21st century challenges in fields of energy, environment and bioengineering
