About

I am a Ph.D. candidate in the Division of Applied Mathematics at Brown University and an NSF Graduate Research Fellow. I'm broadly interested in applying mathematical, physical, and statistical methods to model and understand complex biological systems. In particular, I model cell differentiation and cell fate decision-making with dynamical systems. I've also been a summer research intern and visiting scholar at the Flatiron Institute, working on fruit fly embryogenesis. I strive for and deeply believe in interdisiplinary biology which requires a diverse toolkit and expertise.

Short Bio: I hail from the Cheese 🧀 state of Wisconsin and earned a joint B.S./M.S. in Applied Mathematics, with minors in Computer Science and Bioinformatics, from the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago, where I was a Camras Scholar. See Research for some of my projects on

• learning thermodynamic master equations for open quantum systems paper here in Quantum
• how intracellular pocket conformations determine signaling efficacy through the μ opioid receptor paper here in Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling
• coherence and spectral analysis of molecular dynamics simulations paper here in ACS Omega
• a new logistic regression method for pharmacokinetics paper here in ACS Medicinal Chemistry
• machine learning of stochastic dynamics
• pedestrian bridge instabilities induced by crowds (model of coupled oscillators)

News

• July 2026: Our paper Learning thermodynamic master equations for open quantum systems was published in Quantum
• November 2025: I gave a talk at the NSF-Simons National Institute for Theory and Mathematics in Biology (NITMB)
• January 2025: Our paper Intracellular Pocket Conformations Determine Signaling Efficacy through the μ Opioid Receptor was published in Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling
• August 12-15, 2024: I attended the Princeton Summer School on Machine Learning Theory
• August 5-9, 2024: I attended the AIFI 2024 Summer School on the intersection of physics and AI
• January 3-6, 2024: I attended JMM 2024
• December 11-15, 2023: I attended ICERM’s Computational Tools for Single-Cell Omics

Teaching and Mentoring

• Teaching Assistant at Brown for Statistical Inference II and Computational Probability and Statistics (2024–2025)
• Mentor for 10 undergraduates in the Directed Reading Program on computational biology, optimal transport, thermodynamics