HiPerGator Early Career Award

Awarded by UF Research Computing

Namindu Rangana De Silva, a Ph.D. student in the UF Department of Chemistry, focuses his research on computational chemistry and large-scale molecular-dynamics modeling. His work includes the development of neural-compression frameworks (such as “MDZip”) for molecular-dynamics trajectories, which drastically reduce storage requirements while preserving ensemble-level structural and dynamic fidelity. De Silva’s research thus bridges artificial intelligence, chemical simulation, and big-data infrastructure—enabling scalable simulation, analysis, and sharing of complex biomolecular ensembles.