Atefe Alimirzaei (Ati) earned her B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Babol Noshirvani University of Technology (Mazandaran, Iran). She also earned her M.S. in Chemical Engineering-Biomedical Engineering from Tarbiat Modares University (Tehran, Iran). She moved to the United States for her graduate studies in Dec. 2019 and joined the BioModSquad lab in the spring of 2020. She is currently a Ph.D. Candidate working on data-driven prediction of therapeutic peptides with a focus on designing membranolytic anticancer peptides using both computational and experimental approaches in collaboration with faculty in the Chemical Engineering Department of Auburn University.