I am a control theorist interested in understanding the functional behavior of the basic components of life. The main idea of my research is that the conceptual framework used to study engineered systems is remarkably well-suited to biology. In particular, much of my PhD work focused on the role of feedback control in synthetic and natural biological processes, like the heat shock response of E. coli or receptor dynamics in bacterial chemotaxis. By studying feedback, it is possible to gain insight into the origins of robust behavior in biomolecular circuits.

Background: I received my undergraduate degree in 2012 from the University of Southern California in electrical engineering with a minor in mathematics, then went on the complete my PhD in control and dynamical systems at the California Institute of Technology in 2018 under the supervision of John Doyle and Lea Goentoro.