I’m a mathematician and data scientist. I’m interested in the relationship between the behavior of individuals and that of the collectives they comprise. Fundamental scientific questions concern the forward direction, such as “How do the properties of tissues emerge from those of cells?” Grand challenges of engineering concern the reverse, like “How should I design an individual robot so that the swarm has desirable collective behavior?” I develop theory and methods to answer questions like these.

Currently, I’m a postdoctoral fellow at Georgia Tech and a visiting postdoctoral fellow at the Santa Fe Institute. I spent Spring 2025 as the Berlekamp postdoctoral fellow at the Simons Laufer Mathematical Sciences Institute. For details on my background and experience as a professional data scientist, see About. For more on my research, check out my Google Scholar profile, Papers, or Posts.

News 🔗

10/2025   SFI announced my visiting position!
09/2025   I attended the Postdocs in Complexity Global Conference during a two-week visit to SFI.
08/2025   I gave a talk in the stochastics seminar at Georgia Tech.
06/2025   Siobhan Roberts wrote an article about my work at SLMath with Frank den Hollander and Dana Randall.
04/2025   I gave a talk in the Stanford probability seminar.
01/2025   I started a Berlekamp Postdoctoral Fellowship at SLMath for the program on the Probability and Statistics of Discrete Structures.
11/2024   I gave a seminar talk at SFI during a two-week visit. Thanks to James Holehouse for the invitation!
10/2024   My work with Dana Randall on a non-equilibrium analogue of the Boltzmann distribution was highlighted by Georgia Tech and Phys.org.