I am interested in engineering proteins for biotechnological applications. Proteins are large, complex, and dynamic polymers that can sample many different conformations with different functional properties. The fundamental question of how their shapes and motions are governed by their unique amino acid sequences must be answered if we hope to engineer new proteins with precision. Modeling these proteins in silico and simulating their dynamics with modern techniques and hardware, we can collect high resolution details on proteins to help us address this question. Using these tools and data analysis techniques, I recently developed a method and accompanying python library that reveals critical sequence and structure elements governing the functionally critical dynamics of proteins.