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Collaboration across three levels: inside the department with analysts and numerical experts, across the university with the sciences, and nationally with longtime partners at Penn State, Argonne, and beyond.
I build interdisciplinary teams to solve real-world problems in physics, biology, and materials science. The group runs on three principles: connect, teach, and build.
Collaboration across three levels: inside the department with analysts and numerical experts, across the university with the sciences, and nationally with longtime partners at Penn State, Argonne, and beyond.
Students learn by doing the work: deriving models, running simulations, and presenting in a weekly group seminar. Twelve sections of eight courses taught, with consistently high evaluations across four universities.
High-quality collaborative work first, then motivated students on interesting problems. Sustained success on both fronts is what a research program is made of.
I co-direct ADAM, the CSU Center for Applied Data Analysis and Modeling. Its purpose is to build interdisciplinary teams of researchers and students who solve real problems in physics, biology, and materials science.
Undergraduate and graduate co-authors appear throughout the publication list, from ant-foraging models to poultry food safety to chromosome dynamics.
The group spans applied mathematics, physics, chemical engineering, and biology, from first-year undergraduates to doctoral researchers.
Food-safety and poultry contamination modeling (USDA-NIFA, PHAC).
Experiments for poultry food-safety modeling.
Active matter, motor-protein transport, active rods in microchannels.
Foraging dynamics, symmetry breaking, synthetic consortia.
Swarming-bacteria experiments.
Models of swarming and collective motion.
Clinical modeling, pediatric cardiac surgery outcomes.
If you want to build models that connect to real experiments and data, from foraging to food safety to equation learning, reach out.
Since 2016, 135 students have done research with the group: 107 undergraduate and 28 graduate. A few of where they've landed, from doctoral programs to industry.
A selection focused on recorded destinations. The full roster of 130+ advisees appears in the CV.