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.
Currently, 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 computational projects aimed at precision nutrition. This includes developing models that predict metabolomic profiles by integrating microbial compositions and dietary information, employing both ecology-based and machine-learning approaches.
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