People

The lab

Purushottam Dixit

Principal Investigator

Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Yale, and an affiliate member of the Yale Systems Biology Institute, the Yale Quantitative Biology Institute, and the Program in Physics, Engineering, and Biology (PEB). Purushottam trained as a chemical engineer at Johns Hopkins (PhD) and IIT Bombay (BS). He was a postdoc at Brookhaven National Laboratory and at Columbia before starting his lab in the physics department at the University of Florida in 2020, and moved to Yale in 2023.

Postdoctoral researchers

Michael Chung

Postdoctoral Associate

Develops maximum entropy methods for discovering interpretable low-dimensional dynamics. PhD from UT Austin.

Shaswata Roy

Postdoctoral Associate

PhD from Purdue University.

Graduate students

Jeremy Barrios

Graduate Student

Works on how signaling receptors achieve ligand specificity using non-equilibrium dynamics.

Brooke Emison

Graduate Student

Builds models for information flow in high dimensional biological networks.

Karthik Srinivasan

Graduate Student

Uses classical ecology with a modern twist to study microbiome assembly.

Lucy Sullivan

Graduate Student

Studies the role of non-equilibrium dissipation in biological computations.

Alumni

Hoda AklPhD 2023 · now at Amazon
Kamal BhandariPostdoc · now postdoc at Clemson University
Harys DalviUndergraduate researcher
Bridgette GiffordUndergraduate researcher
Andrew GoetzPhD 2025 · now at Genentech
Lukas HerronUndergraduate · now PhD student, University of Maryland
Jack MoMS, Physics
Mayar ShahinPhD 2024
Xiaochuan ZhaoPostdoc · now in industry

Openings

There is room for you here

Graduate students, postdocs, and Yale undergraduates are all welcome to get in touch. The application details are on the next page.