Research Interests

I have focused my scientific career on a simple, yet powerful goal: the application of engineering principles to the analysis of biological systems. Central to my research is the development and exploration of predictive biological models through computational simulations grounded in real-world experimental validation. I have similarly devoted much effort in the development of technologies, such as microfluidics, that can probe such systems in complex yet meaningful ways. In the long term, my work will bridge a long standing divide between large statistics based models with global system coverage and smaller analytical models derived from explicit chemical mechanisms and first principles, producing a framework of computational and experimental methods enabling the design and implementation of robust dynamic behaviors in biological systems.