Papers

Below is a selection of published scientific work exploring machine learning, physics, and computational methods for understanding complex systems.


Machine Learning

Comparing Machine Learning Architectures on Biophysics Data

Biophysical Journal, 2025

A comparison of machine learning architectures for analyzing imaging and biophysical datasets.


Energy Landscape Inference

Learning Potential Energy Landscapes in FRET

Biophysical Journal, 2022

My favorite paper! We reconstruct full molecular binding energy landscapes despite having no direct measurements of the underlying potential surface.

Inferring Effective Forces for Langevin Dynamics

Journal of Chemical Physics, 2020

By tracking particle motion, we infer the invisible force fields governing stochastic dynamics.

Inferring Potential Energy Landscapes with Measurement Noise

iScience, 2022

An extension of the original method that incorporates measurement noise and improves scalability for larger systems.


Microscopy & Imaging

Diffraction-Limited Molecular Cluster Quantification with Bayesian Nonparametrics

Nature Computational Science, 2022

Methods for counting molecular clusters even when they cannot be visually resolved due to diffraction limits.

Structured Illumination Microscopy

Communications Engineering, 2024

Computational methods for structured illumination microscopy, enabling imaging below the diffraction limit.

Mapping Diffusion Coefficient Maps on Cell Membranes

Biophysical Reports, 2024

Methods for reconstructing spatial diffusion and friction maps on biological membranes.


Stochastic Dynamics & Molecular Motion

Analyzing Bacteria Swimming Behavior

Biophysical Journal, 2023

Analysis of bacterial swimming dynamics, showing how bacteria regulate motion to conserve energy in low-resource environments.

Molecular Centrifuge Analysis

Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2023

Analysis methods for molecular centrifuge experiments used to probe molecular binding energetics.

Quantifying Binding Kinetics

Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 2025

Methods for learning molecular binding and unbinding rates from indirect stochastic observations.


Dissertation

My PhD Dissertation

Arizona State University, PhD Dissertation

Research on statistical inference methods for stochastic biophysical systems, molecular dynamics, and single-molecule experiments.


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Additional publications and citation information can be found on my Google Scholar profile.

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