Our Team

People

The researchers behind Statmech@UChicago.

Principal Investigator

Suriyanarayanan (Suri) Vaikuntanathan

Principal Investigator

Postdoctoral Scholars

Carlos Floyd

Carlos Floyd

CCTCh Postdoctoral Fellow

Education: BS UNC Chapel Hill 2015; PhD U Maryland 2020

Matthew Du

Matthew Du

James Franck Director's Fellowship

Research: Active matter, ML, nonequilibrium statistical mechanics

Education: BA Chemistry, Northwestern; PhD Chemistry, UCSD

Deb Sankar Banerjee

Deb Sankar Banerjee

Postdoctoral Scholar

Research: Biophysics

Education: PhD Raman Research Institute 2018

Jordan Shivers

Jordan Shivers

Schmidt AI Fellowship; Kadanoff-Rice Fellowship

Research: Active matter, biophysics, machine learning

Education: BSE Princeton 2016; PhD Rice 2022

Vidyesh Rao

Vidyesh Rao

Postdoctoral Scholar

Research: Physical learning

Education: PhD Physics, Syracuse University

Hector Manuel Lopez Rios

Hector Manuel Lopez Rios

MRSEC Director's Fellowship

Research: Dynamics, chemical systems, out-of-equilibrium phenomena

Education: BS UNAM; PhD Northwestern

Aditya Singh

Aditya Singh

CCTCh Postdoctoral Fellow

Education: BS U Wisconsin-Madison 2020; PhD UC Berkeley 2025

Billie Meadowcroft

Billie Meadowcroft

Kadanoff-Rice Fellowship

Research: Biophysics, machine learning

Education: MSc Cambridge; PhD UCL

Graduate Students

Lissa Rennert

Lissa Rennert

Graduate Student

Research: Non-equilibrium biophysics

Education: BS/MS RIT 2019

Daiki Goto

Daiki Goto

Sachs Fellowship

Research: Soft and active matter

Education: ME Applied Physics, U Tokyo 2019

Kristina Trifonova

Kristina Trifonova

NSF GRFP

Research: Neural network-like behavior of disordered, non-equilibrium physical systems

Education: BS Emory 2023

Alumni

Frank Gao

Frank Gao

Dimension VC

Alexandra L.

Alexandra L.

Agnish Behera

Agnish Behera

Flatiron Institute

Aditya Nandy

Aditya Nandy

Asst Prof, Chemical & Biomolecular Eng, UCLA

Gregory Rassolov

Gregory Rassolov

Yuqing Qiu

Yuqing Qiu

Faculty, Physics, U Tennessee

Michael Nguyen

Michael Nguyen

Laura Tociu

Laura Tociu

Clara del Junco

Clara del Junco

Postdoc, Knowledge Lab, UChicago

Zhenghan Liao

Zhenghan Liao

Postdoc, NYU

Nick Ludwig

Nick Ludwig

Backend Engineer, Mod9 Technologies

Kinjal Dasbiswas

Kinjal Dasbiswas

Asst Prof, UC Merced