Our Team
The researchers behind Statmech@UChicago.
Principal Investigator
CCTCh Postdoctoral Fellow
Education: BS UNC Chapel Hill 2015; PhD U Maryland 2020
csfloyd@uchicago.eduJames Franck Director's Fellowship
Research: Active matter, ML, nonequilibrium statistical mechanics
Education: BA Chemistry, Northwestern; PhD Chemistry, UCSD
madu@uchicago.eduPostdoctoral Scholar
Research: Biophysics
Education: PhD Raman Research Institute 2018
dsbanerjee@uchicago.eduSchmidt AI Fellowship; Kadanoff-Rice Fellowship
Research: Active matter, biophysics, machine learning
Education: BSE Princeton 2016; PhD Rice 2022
jshivers@uchicago.eduPostdoctoral Scholar
Research: Physical learning
Education: PhD Physics, Syracuse University
vidyeshrao@uchicago.eduMRSEC Director's Fellowship
Research: Dynamics, chemical systems, out-of-equilibrium phenomena
Education: BS UNAM; PhD Northwestern
hectorlr@uchicago.eduCCTCh Postdoctoral Fellow
Education: BS U Wisconsin-Madison 2020; PhD UC Berkeley 2025
ansingh@uchicago.eduKadanoff-Rice Fellowship
Research: Biophysics, machine learning
Education: MSc Cambridge; PhD UCL
bmeadowcroft@uchicago.eduGraduate Student
Research: Non-equilibrium biophysics
Education: BS/MS RIT 2019
erennert@uchicago.eduSachs Fellowship
Research: Soft and active matter
Education: ME Applied Physics, U Tokyo 2019
dgoto@uchicago.eduNSF GRFP
Research: Neural network-like behavior of disordered, non-equilibrium physical systems
Education: BS Emory 2023
ktrifonova@uchicago.eduDimension VC
Flatiron Institute
Asst Prof, Chemical & Biomolecular Eng, UCLA
Faculty, Physics, U Tennessee
Postdoc, Knowledge Lab, UChicago
Postdoc, NYU
Backend Engineer, Mod9 Technologies
Asst Prof, UC Merced