News: In January 2012, I will be starting as an assistant professor in the Department of Applied Physics at Stanford University, with courtesy appointments in Neurobiology and Electrical Engineering.
I am currently a fellow of the Sloan-Swartz Center for Theoretical Neurobiology in the Keck Center at UCSF.
I am also supported by a career award from the Burroughs Wellcome Fund Interfaces in Science Program.
During my time as a Sloan-Swartz fellow, I have enjoyed extended stays at several centers and institutions and, in addition to UCSF, I am especially grateful to:
Before joining UCSF I did my PhD in string theory with
Petr Horava
in the
Berkeley Center for Theoretical Physics
and the
Theory Group
at the
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
And before this sojourn in the world of strings, I spent my time as an undergrad at
MIT
studying electrical engineering and computer science
(EECS),
mathematics and
physics.
Although during my graduate work I played around with black holes, eleven dimensions,
and little loops of string, I am now more fascinated
by the world of biology which is full of incredible amounts of data
but a relative paucity of theoretical frameworks within which to
interpret and understand this data. The situation is quite the
opposite in string theory where beautiful frameworks abound and data
is sparse. My new interests span the gamut of theoretical questions
in neuroscience and systems biology.