I am a physicist by training, having earned my Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in 2021. My doctoral thesis, supervised by Prof. Sergei Maslov, focused on how microbial interactions, such as cross-feeding and predator-prey interactions, impact the ecological and evolutionary dynamics of microbial communities.
During my postdoctoral training at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, working under the supervision of Prof. Yang-Yu Liu, my research endeavors to merge ecological theories and omics data to decode the organizing principles of microbial communities, with a special interest in human gut microbiomes. In addition to theoretical modeling, I actively engage in developing deep-learning methods caimed at precision nutrition.
Currently, our research group is focused on uncovering the intricate interactions among diet, microbes, metabolites, and the host through a combination of computational and experimental approaches. On the computational side, we analyze multi-omics datasets, model the ecological dynamics of microbiomes, and develop machine learning tools. Experimentally, we use microbial cultures to validate computationally inferred interactions and to design novel therapeutic strategies based on synthetic microbial communities.
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