My research focuses on using applied mathematics to better understand biological systems. In the past, I have worked on using computational fluid dynamics to model biological systems, developed code to simulate bacterial swarming to better understand emergent behavior, and more recently, have been modeling hearing mechanism of O. ochracea in order to better understand the mechanics of its sensory abilities, as well as the role of asymmetry in biology. I consider myself a bird rather than a frog and look forward to expanding this work to other biological systems. A sampling of my recent research work and presentations is below.

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Ormia ochracea Tympanal Asymmetry

This work was first presented at APS DFD 2019 in Seattle, WA. A limited-resolution copy of the poster is available here and I am continuing to work on the project. More work should be released soon(tm)! See my interview with Ellie Bladon, and my nutshell games presentation on my Sci-Comm page for more information!

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Ormia ochracea Model Update

This work has ended up being significantly more fruitful than expected, and we have developed a new functional model for the mechanics of O. ochracea! We currently have a paper under review, and hope to publish soon!

ASEE Academic Dishonesty Research

This work was the result of some work I did at various points in 2017 and 2018 dealing with academic integrity in a first-year engineering course–we didn’t expect it to turn into anything worth publishing, but it became far more involved than we expected, and this is the result! The accompanying conference paper is available here, and we expect to publish at least one more paper in 2022!