I also completed my postdoc at EPA, studying methods of characterizing the uncertainty and variability in biological models, particularly for pharmacokinetics. Working with Woodrow Setzer and Hugh Barton, we examined data-driven model comparison and computational approaches for both Bayesian and maximim likelihood parameter estimation.

I received my Ph.D. in 2006 from the Department of Physics at Duke University I completed my dissertation in experimental physics in the Non-linear Dynamics Laboratory of Professor Bob Behringer. I also completed an M.S. in Computer Science on a computational project related to my dissertation. My research interests include several phenomena of networks and granular materials and I am interested in computational approaches to studying complex systems in general.

I attended the University of Michigan for my physics B.S., and got my physics M.S. in 2001 from the Georgia Institute of Technology. As an undergraduate I published my physics thesis as two papers with Professor Nori in the Physics Department, and I had three architecture papers on thermal simulation with Professor Malkawi. I was also Editor in Chief of Gargoyle, the University of Michigan humor magazine and also co-president of M-Flicks, the student film club.