Shahrooz Zarbafian
Mechanical Engineering, ENG
Graduate Student Fellow, Mechanical Engineering, College of Engineering
Shahrooz Zarbafian was chosen as a Hariri Graduate Fellow in May, 2016. He is currently pursuing a PhD in Mechanical Engineering. His research area is controls and optimization and his projects involve algorithm development for the interdisciplinary problem of computational protein docking at the Structural Bioinformatics and Network Optimization and Control labs at Boston University. Zarbafian’s research focuses on developing computational tools to facilitate the drug discovery process where the goal is to discover new drugs or identify effective current medications for treating emerging diseases. Specifically, he uses optimization and machine learning frameworks to simulate the protein-protein interactions.