People

Carlos Floyd

CCTCh Fellow · Assistant Professor, Carnegie Mellon University, from January 2027

Education: BS UNC Chapel Hill 2015; PhD U Maryland 2020
csfloyd@uchicago.edu

Matthew Du

JFI Director's Fellow

Research: Active matter, ML, nonequilibrium statistical mechanics
Education: BA Chemistry, Northwestern; PhD Chemistry, UCSD
madu@uchicago.edu

Akashnathan Aranganathan

AI+Science Fellow

Vidyesh Rao Anisetti

Postdoctoral Scholar

Research: Physical learning
Education: PhD Physics, Syracuse University
vidyeshrao@uchicago.edu

Hector Manuel Lopez Rios

MRSEC Director's Fellow

Research: Dynamics, chemical systems, out-of-equilibrium phenomena
Education: BS UNAM; PhD Northwestern
hectorlr@uchicago.edu

Aditya Singh

CCTCh Fellow

Education: BS U Wisconsin-Madison 2020; PhD UC Berkeley 2025
ansingh@uchicago.edu

Billie Meadowcroft

Kadanoff–Rice Fellow

Research: Biophysics, machine learning
Education: MSc Cambridge; PhD UCL
bmeadowcroft@uchicago.edu

Lissa Rennert

Graduate Student

Research: Non-equilibrium biophysics
Education: BS/MS RIT 2019
erennert@uchicago.edu

Daiki Goto

Sachs Fellowship

Research: Soft and active matter
Education: ME Applied Physics, U Tokyo 2019
dgoto@uchicago.edu

Kristina Trifonova

NSF GRFP

Research: Neural network-like behavior of disordered, non-equilibrium physical systems
Education: BS Emory 2023
ktrifonova@uchicago.edu

Disha Sanwal

Graduate Student

Joined 2026