Assistant Professor · UC San Diego
I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics at UC San Diego. My research explores the behavior of continuum models of developing organisms, aiming to understand how self-organizing behavior driving morphogenesis is regulated. I approach these questions with tools from nonlinear dynamics, continuum mechanics, and scientific computation.
Formerly, I was a Flatiron Research Fellow at the Center for Computational Biology, Flatiron Institute (2020–2024), where I worked in Stas Shvartsman's Developmental Dynamics group. I received my PhD in Physics from MIT in 2020, working with Prof. Jörn Dunkel in the Physical Applied Math group.
Developmental Cell 60, 270–287
Formation of Drosophila germ cells requires spatial patterning of phospholipids
Current Biology 35, 1612–1621
Development shapes the evolutionary diversification of rodent stripe patterns
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 120, e2312077120
Morphogens enable interacting supracellular phases that generate organ architectureScience
Science 382, eadg5579
A multifunctional Wnt regulator underlies the evolution of rodent stripe patterns
Nature Ecology & Evolution 7, 2143–2159
Generation and motion of interfaces in a mass-conserving reaction-diffusion system
SIAM J. Applied Dynamical Systems 22, 2408–2431
Forced and spontaneous symmetry breaking in cell polarizationFeatured
Nature Computational Science 2, 504–511
Topological braiding and virtual particles on the cell membrane
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 118, e2104191118
Topological turbulence in the membrane of a living cell
Nature Physics 16, 657–662
Gait-optimized locomotion of wave-driven soft sheets
Soft Matter 16, 3991–3999
Structural redundancy in supracellular actomyosin networks enables robust tissue folding
Developmental Cell 50, 586–598
Geometry of wave propagation on active deformable surfaces
Physical Review Letters 120, 268001
Actomyosin-based tissue folding requires a multicellular myosin gradient
Development 144, 1876–1886
Scaling exponent for incremental records
J. Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment P10025
Oscillations in a turbulence-condensate system
Physical Review E 87, 065202
Mushy-layer dynamics in micro and hyper gravity
Physics of Fluids 24, 103305
University of California, San Diego
Center for Computational Biology, Flatiron Institute, New York
Massachusetts Institute of Technology · Advisor: Prof. Jörn Dunkel
Yale University
Math 170A — Numerical Linear Algebra
Math 170B — Numerical Analysis
Math 171A — Mathematical Programming
Math 270A — Numerical Linear Algebra (grad)
Math 270B — Numerical Optimization (grad)