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 Master’s of Science in Systems Telecommunications Engineering, and his Bachelor’s 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 and on RNA binding Proteins. 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.