I am a Postdoctoral Research Associate in Bioengineering at Rice University and at the Center for Theoretical Biological Physics under Oleg Igoshin. My current research interests involve determining the cellular-level behaviors underlying emergent behavior in the soil bacteria Myxococcus xanthus using a combination of analytical modeling and data-driven agent-based simulations. My work involves collaborations with both mathematical researchers at the University of Houston and with experimentalists at the Welch Lab led by Roy Welch.

I completed my Ph.D. at the University of Utah under my advisor Paul Bressloff as well as working closely with Sean Lawley as part of the Biophysics and Stochastics Research Group. While there I worked on modeling the diffusion of particles whose behavior depends on the state of some discrete, possibly non-Markovian random variable. I approached these problems using a combination of analytical and approximation techniques, as well as numerical PDE solvers and Monte Carlo methods to confirm or extend analytical results.

You can find my CV here.