Current Projects

Modeling tools
Biological modeling
Safety of AI in control
Project 4
  1. Parameter robustness in dynamical system models
  2. Revolutionizing engineering education using collaborative design and integration of sociotechnical modules
  3. Safety guarantees and robustness quantification of generative AI models
  4. Robust design and analysis of engineered biological systems
  5. LLM-based personalized grading to enable independent and open-ended summative assessments


Summer Research:

Available projects for 2026

Past summers: 2025, 2024.



Involvement in Other Projects and Collaborations

  1. Mathematical modeling and control of bacterial growth (with Chelsea Hu at Texas A&M University). Read more here.
  2. Robustness and stability guarantees for nonlinear dynamical systems (with Inigo Incer at University of Michigan; Eduardo Sontag at Northeastern University; Nick Nolan, Emma Peterman, Katie Galloway, and Domitilla Del Vecchio at MIT). Read more here and here.
  3. Characterization of integrase and excisionase activity in cell-free (with Makena Rodriguez and Richard Murray at Caltech, and William Poole at Altos Labs). Read more in ACS Synthetic Biology.
  4. Open-source modeling tools for synthetic biology: BioCRNpyler, Bioscrape, Sub-SBML, and AutoReduce. Work in collaboration with William Poole (Altos Labs) and Richard Murray (Caltech)
  5. Design and implementation of an autonomous bicycle: The i-Bike Project. More here.


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