Current Duke Appointments & Affiliations
Associate Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering
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2024 - Present
Biomedical Engineering,
Pratt School of Engineering
Associate Professor in Molecular Genetics and Microbiology
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2025 - Present
Molecular Genetics and Microbiology,
Basic Science Departments
Recent Scholarly Works
A data-driven modeling framework for mapping genotypes to synthetic microbial community functions.
Journal article Cell systems · July 2026 Synthetic microbial communities offer valuable insights into the mechanisms that govern community functions, and they can be designed to achieve desired functions in order to address societal challenges in precision medicine and agriculture. Existing compu ... Full text CitePhysics-constrained neural ordinary differential equation models to discover and predict microbial community dynamics.
Journal article Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · March 2026 Microbial communities play essential roles in shaping ecosystem functions and predictive modeling frameworks are crucial for understanding, controlling, and harnessing their properties. Competition and cross-feeding of metabolites drives microbiome dynamic ... Full text CiteMetabolic interplay drives population cycles in a cross-feeding microbial community.
Journal article Nature communications · October 2025 Population cycles are prevalent in ecosystems and play key roles in determining their functions. While multiple mechanisms have been theoretically shown to generate population cycles, there are limited examples of mutualisms driving self-sustained oscillat ... Full text CiteRecent Grants
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Training Grant
Inst. Training Prgm or CMEMentor · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2026 - 2031A multi-scale systems biology framework for understanding and engineering the human gut microbiome
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institute of General Medical Sciences · 2017 - 2030Dietary Fiber-Microbiome Interactions: Elucidating Mechanisms to Suppress Multi-Drug Resistant Organisms in the Human Gut
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases · 2025 - 2029View All Grants
Education
California Institute of Technology ·
2013
Ph.D.