Dr. Amirhossein Manzourolajdad is an assistant professor in the computer science department of SUNY Polytechnic Institute, Utica, NY. He received is PhD in Bioinformatics from the University of Georgia in 2014, his Masters of Science in Systems Telecommunications Engineering, and his Bachelors of Science in electrical engineering (electronics).
Given his interest in interdisciplinary studies and RNA structural biology in specific, he focused on RNA molecular structure of bacterial riboswitches during his PhD. He later worked on evolutionary studies on HIV RNA at the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), and on RNA binding Proteins at the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS), NIH, as a research fellow. He later worked on long-range RNA-RNA interactions in SARS-CoV-2 RNA. His current area of research is sequence design for riboswitches using Geometric Graph Neural Networks. Amir has also been a visiting professor at the computer science department of Colgate University, NY, and at the BioHeath Informatics department of Indiana University at Indianapolis (IUPUI), IN.