Alpan Raval develops methods for accurate and efficient simulations of biomolecular systems. He earned a Ph.D. in theoretical physics from the University of Maryland, and graduated from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, with an M.Sc. in physics. Prior to joining DESRES, Alpan was an Associate Professor of computational biology and mathematics at the Claremont Colleges, where his primary research interests were in biological applications of random graph theory and machine learning.