Group news:

  • August 2026: Welcome to Aidan Feirstein and Natalie Makeff, new undergraduate researchers in the group!
  • August 2026: Yue starts his new position as a postdoctoral research associate at Duke University. Congratulations to Yue, and we miss him already!
  • July 2026: Welcome to Erika Meredith, a new undergraduate researcher in the group!
  • January 2026: Yue presents at Dynamics Days, and Nour participates in an NITMB Workshop on Curiosity-driven Dialogue and Collaboration between Experiment and Theory.
  • January 2026: Welcome to Laiba Gull, a new graduate student in the group! Laiba is interested in mathematical biology and network modeling.
  • December 2025: We close out the semester with our first group holiday party and make gingerbread zebrafish.
  • September 2025: Tianna and Yue present at the SIAM Great Lakes Section Annual Meeting.
  • August 2025: Nour and Yue present posters at the NITMB MathBio Convergence Conference.
  • July 2025: Yue presents his research at the SMB Annual Meeting, and Isabel shares her work at the Indiana Math Undergraduate Research Conference.
  • May 2025: Isabel Sofia Bejarano Molina joins the group as a EURO SURF undergraduate researcher -- welcome Isabel!
  • May 2025: Asini, Nour, and Yue present at the SIAM Conference on Applications of Dynamical Systems.
  • May 2025: Congraulations to Asini for advancing to Ph.D. candidacy, and to Joe and Thanmaya on their graduations!
  • January 2025: Welcome to Tianna Burke, a new graduate student in the group! Tianna is interested in math biology and linking different modeling approaches.
  • January 2025: Lots of travel for the group -- Nour goes to JMM, and Yue visits the NITMB and ICERM.
  • December 2024: Congratulations to Alexia on her graduation and new job at PwC!
  • December 2024: Congratulations to Nour for receiving the 2nd place poster award at Data Science Week!
  • November 2024: Alexia, Joe, and Thanmaya present their research in a talk at the Purdue Fall Undergraduate Research Expo!
  • November 2024: Big cheers to Nour for being awarded the 2025 Ivo and Renata Babuška Thesis Prize from the AMS!
  • September 2024: The Exponent, Purdue's student newspaper, shares Alexia, Joe, and Thanmaya's first weeky election forecast on Sept. 23, and it makes the front page--congratulations!
  • September 2024: Alexia, Joe, Thanmaya, and I record a podcast episode on elections with Purdue's Superheroes of Science initiative.
  • September 2024: Alexia, Joe, and Thanmaya's 2024 forecast website launches on the day of the Harris and Trump debate!
  • September 2024: Welcome to Asini Konpola, a new graduate student in the group! Asini is working on data-driven modeling of biological pattern formation.
  • August 2024: Welcome to two new postdocs in the group: Nour Khoudari, who joins from Temple University as a Golomb Visiting Assistant Professor, and Yue Liu, who joins from the University of Oxford as a postdoctoral fellow! Nour will be working on TDA for biological patterns, and Yue will be working on data-driven methods and parameter estimation for agent-based models.
  • July 2024: Congratulations to Thanmaya for receiving the Best First Time Researcher Award from SURF for her presentation in the Purdue Summer Undergraduate Research Symposium!
  • July 2024: Congratulations to Alyson, Joe, Kelsi, and Thanmaya for sharing their work at the Indiana Summer Undergraduate Math Research Conference!
  • June 2024: Kelsi Anderson and Alyson Jones join Purdue for the summer as part of the SIAM-Simons Summer Undergraduate Research Program!
  • May 2024: Joe and Thanmaya continue their election forecasting research over the summer through the Purdue Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship program.
  • May 2024: Daniel graduates with his Ph.D. and will be joining Arizona State University as a Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow!
  • January 2024: Welcome to Joe Cromp, Thanmaya Pattanashetty, and Alexia Rodrigues, joining the group as OUR Scholars working on forecasting the 2024 U.S. elections!
  • July 2023: Big congratulations to Annapoorna for receiving the "Best Oral Presentation" award for her talk at Purdue's 2023 Summer Undergraduate Research Symposium!
  • July 2023: Annapoorna presents her work on image-processing for biological pattern formation at the Indiana Undergraduate Math Research Conference.
  • April 2023: Daniel presents his work on topological data analysis of biological pattern formation at the AMS Spring Central Sectional Meeting -- congratulations!
  • November 2022: Annapoorna is selected as a Purdue OUR Scholar -- congratulations!
  • September 2022: Manas, Mengqi, and Ryan's 2022 forecast website goes live!
  • September 2022: Annapoorna Prabhu and Simran Kadadi join the group as undergraduate researchers in mathematical biology -- welcome!
  • August 2022: Welcome to Dr. Kyung Ha, joining us as a postdoctoral fellow from UCLA! He'll be working on modeling and quantification questions in plant biology.
  • May 2022: Group alums Brian and Samuel are headed to Northwestern and Stanford for MS programs -- big congratulations!
  • April 2022: Ryan is selected as a Purdue OUR Scholar -- congratulations!
  • April 2022: Congratulations to Mengqi for being selected for the SURF program -- welcome to the team!
  • April 2022: Congratulations to Caroline, Manas, and Ryan for presenting their work at the Purdue Undergraduate Research Conference and Mathematics Undergraduate Research Day!
  • July 2021: Look for Will's talk titled "Mathematical modeling of U.S. election dynamics" in minisymposium 84 at the SIAM Annual Meeting!
  • April 2021: Emma, Harita, and Will had their presentations accepted by the Northwestern Undergraduate Research and Arts Expo -- congratulations!
  • March 2021: The materials from our AMS Short Course on Mathematical & Computational Methods for Complex Social Systems (co-organized with HZ Brooks, M Feng, and MA Porter) are now available in the ZeroDivZero repository.
  • February 2021: Congraulations to Will for being selected to participate in a UCLA Math REU this summer!
  • January 2021: Congraulations to Emma and Harita on receiving URAP awards -- welcome to the group!
  • January 2021: Look for Will's talk on election forecasting at the virtual Joint Mathematics Meetings on January 7!
  • November 2020: Christopher, Samuel, and Will's 2020 election forecasts and uncertainty visualizations are highlighted in Northwestern Now News.
  • November 2020: Congratulations to Christopher, Samuel, and Will for having their virtual research experience featured on the NU Office of Undergraduate Research's social-media account!
  • September 2020: Congratulations to Brian for being selected as a finalist for the NU Fletcher Undergraduate Research Prize for outstanding SURG-funded projects!
  • September 2020: Our 2020 election-forecast website is live! Check out my group's forecasts of the upcoming U.S. elections.
  • August 2020: The public-science website that Blake and I developed to give children a place to simulate zebrafish patterns is active! If you have suggestions or comments on this site, we'd be grateful to hear your feedback.
  • August 2020: Congratulations to Brian, Christopher, Olivia, and Will for presenting at the QBio Summer Undergraduate Research Program Symposium! A recording of Brian's presentation on statistical analysis of state-state voting relationships is available here.
  • June 2020: Congratulations to Christopher and Will for receiving the Audience Choice award for their poster at the Northwestern Undergraduate Research & Arts Expo! Their work is also featured on the NURJ x Expo 2020 website.