presentations

2026

  1. Invited Talk
    (UPCOMING) TBD
    Harvard Undergraduate Biosecurity Fellows, Cambridge, MA
    Joint talk with Anna Sappington.
  2. Poster
    (UPCOMING) Customizing protein evolution with Fitness Landscape Design (FLD)
    Harvard/MIT MD-PhD Program Retreat Poster Session
  3. Invited Talk
    (UPCOMING) Principles of Biophysical Fitness Landscape Design
    Harvard University Department of Physics CMT Kids’ Seminar, Cambridge, MA
  4. Poster
    (UPCOMING) Customizing protein evolution with Fitness Landscape Design (FLD)
    New England Computational Biology (NECB) Conference
  5. Invited Talk
    Proteins, Evolution, and Fighting Disease
    Harvard University PRISE Distinguished Speaker Series, Cambridge, MA
    Joint talk with Anna Sappington.
  6. Poster
    Fitness Landscape Design: Reshaping Protein Evolution to Fight Disease
    Hertz Foundation Summer Workshop
  7. Invited Talk
    Diffusion Models and Models of Diffusion: Designing Proteins and their Evolutionary Future
    École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) Les Irrotationnel·le·s Invited Talk Talk, Lausanne, Switzerland
    Joint talk with Anna Sappington.
  8. Paper Talk
    Evolutionary dynamics under phenotypic uncertainty
    RECOMB 2026, Thessaloniki, Greece
    Accepted full paper; joint talk with Anna Sappington. Paper co-authors Eugene Shakhnovich and Bonnie Berger.
  9. Poster
    Fitness Landscape Design (FLD): Computational Protocols for Shaping Protein Evolution
    RECOMB 2026, Thessaloniki, Greece
  10. Talk
    Reshaping Protein Evolution with Biophysical Fitness Landscape Design (FLD)
    Young Biophysicists Meeting, Virtual (international seminar)
  11. Talk
    Evolutionary dynamics under phenotypic uncertainty
    American Physical Society Global Summit 2026, Denver, CO
    Finalist for the DSNP Student Speaker Prize. Presented in the Division of Statistical and Nonlinear Physics (DSNP) Student Speaker Prize Session.
  12. Talk
    Shaping Protein Evolution with Biophysical Fitness Landscape Design
    Biophysical Society Annual Meeting 2026, San Francisco, CA
    Platform talk (competitively selected), Computational Biophysics: Molecular Dynamics, AI/ML, and Bioinformatics I session
  13. Poster
    Shaping Protein Evolution with Biophysical Fitness Landscape Design
    Biophysical Society Annual Meeting 2026, San Francisco, CA
  14. Invited Talk
    Fitness Landscape Design: Shaping Protein Evolution to Fight Disease
    Edward Via College of Osteopathic Medicine (VCOM), Carolinas Campus Research Day, Spartanburg, SC

2025

  1. Talk
    Biophysical Fitness Landscape Design: Reshaping Protein Evolution
    American Physical Society New England Section Fall Meeting 2025, Providence, RI
    Biophysics I session
  2. Invited Talk
    Proteins, Evolution, and Fighting Disease
    Harvard University PRISE Distinguished Speaker Series, Cambridge, MA
    Joint talk with Anna Sappington
  3. Talk
    Trapping viral evolution with biophysical fitness landscape design
    Harvard University Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology ChemTalks, Cambridge, MA
  4. Talk
    Principles of Biophysical Fitness Landscape Design
    American Physical Society Global Summit 2025, Anaheim, CA & Virtual
    Division of Biological Physics (DBIO) Early Career Prize Session. 1st Prize (Graduate Students).
  5. Talk
    Scaling Laws of Robustness in Probabilistic Genotype-Phenotype Maps
    American Physical Society Global Summit 2025, Anaheim, CA & Virtual
    Statistical Physics of Networks I (Focus Session). Presented by Anna Sappington.
  6. Poster
    Fitness Extraction from Genotype Correlations in Time Series
    American Physical Society Global Summit 2025, Anaheim, CA & Virtual

2024

  1. Invited Talk
    Mutational Robustness in Evolution & Structural Properties of Genotype-Phenotype Maps
    National Agri-Food Biotechnology Institute (NABI), India Dept. of Biotechnology, Mohali, Punjab, India
  2. Invited Talk
    Mathematical Structure Underlying Genotype-Phenotype Maps, Fitness Landscapes, and Evolutionary Dynamics
    Institute of Life Sciences, India Department of Biotechnology, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India
  3. Invited Talk
    Mathematical Structure Underlying Genotype-Phenotype Maps, Fitness Landscapes, and Evolutionary Dynamics
    National Institute of Technology-Rourkela, BITES 2025, Rourkela, Odisha, India
  4. Talk
    Analytical Theory of Probabilistic Genotype-Phenotype Map Robustness
    American Physical Society New England Section Fall Meeting 2024, Boston, MA
    Biophysics I session. Joint talk with Anna Sappington.
  5. Poster
    Probabilistic Genotype-Phenotype Maps Reveal Mutational Robustness of RNA Folding, Spin Glasses, and Quantum Circuits
    American Physical Society New England Section Fall Meeting 2024, Boston, MA
    Poster II session. Poster displayed (not presented in person).
  6. Poster
    Analytical Theory of Scaling Laws for Probabilistic Genotype-Phenotype Map Robustness
    Harvard/MIT MD-PhD Program Retreat Poster Session, South Yarmouth, MA
    Joint talk with Anna Sappington.

2023

  1. Poster
    Probabilistic Genotype-Phenotype Maps Reveal Mutational Robustness of RNA Folding, Spin Glasses, and Quantum Circuits
    Harvard/MIT MD-PhD Program Retreat Poster Session, South Yarmouth, MA
    Joint talk with Anna Sappington
  2. Invited Talk
    Robustness and Navigability in Fitness Landscapes
    Harvard Medical School, Machine Learning to Accelerate Biology (MLAB) Series, Boston, MA
  3. Talk
    Maximum Entropy Model for Genotype-Phenotype Map Organization Reveals Maximally Robust Neutral Networks
    American Physical Society March Meeting 2023, Las Vegas, NV & Virtual
    Session GG04: Collective Dynamics and Network Theory in Complex Systems (Virtual)
  4. Poster
    Probabilistic Genotype-Phenotype Maps Reveal Mutational Robustness of RNA Folding, Spin Glasses, and Quantum Circuits
    American Physician-Scientists Association Northeast Regional Meeting, Boston, MA
    Joint talk with Anna Sappington.

2022

  1. Talk
    Maximally robust neutral networks in the correlated phase of input-output maps
    American Physical Society March Meeting 2022, Chicago, IL & Virtual
    Session A08: Network Theory and Application to Complex Systems I (Focus Session)

2021

  1. Talk
    The Final Piece of the Neo-Riemannian Puzzle: Dodecatonic Cycles and a 5-dimensional Tonnetz for Nearly Symmetric Hexachords
    UK Society for Music Analysis, Birmingham, UK & Virtual
  2. Invited Workshop
    Scherzo Workshop for Christopher Newport University Band Students
    Christopher Newport University, Newport News, VA (Virtual)
  3. Talk
    The Final Piece of the Neo-Riemannian Puzzle: Dodecatonic Cycles and a 5-dimensional Tonnetz for Nearly Symmetric Hexachords
    The Music Society at Temple University, Philadelphia, PA & Virtual
  4. Talk
    A Phase Transition Between Random (Fragile) and Correlated (Robust) Phases of Input-Output Maps
    American Physical Society March Meeting 2021, Virtual
    Session E17: Stochastic Thermodynamics of Biological and Artificial Information Processing I (Focus Session)
  5. Talk
    The Final Piece of the Neo-Riemannian Puzzle: Dodecatonic Cycles and a 5-dimensional Tonnetz for Nearly Symmetric Hexachords
    McGill Music Graduate Symposium, Montreal, Canada & Virtual

2019

  1. Invited Workshop
    Science of Sound and Music
    University of Alberta, December Physics Teachers’ Workshop for Alberta Province, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
    With Eric J. Heller
  2. Talk
    The Born-Oppenheimer approximation in graphene: A time-dependent perspective
    American Physical Society March Meeting 2019, Boston, MA

2018

  1. Poster
    Lazy electrons in graphene: A time-dependent tight-binding study
    Harvard Herchel Smith Undergraduate Research Fellows Visitas Poster Session, Cambridge, MA
  2. Poster
    Validity of the Adiabatic Born-Oppenheimer Approximation in the Tight-Binding Model of Graphene
    Harvard Spring Undergraduate Research Spotlight, Cambridge, MA
  3. Talk
    Validity of the Adiabatic Born-Oppenheimer Approximation in the Tight-Binding Model of Graphene
    American Physical Society March Meeting 2018, Los Angeles, CA
  4. Conf. Performance
    Altitude
    Society of Composers, Inc. Region III Conference, Christopher Newport University, Newport News, VA
    Composer. Performed by the Christopher Newport University Wind Ensemble and local artists.
  5. Conf. Performance
    Rhapsody No. 1
    North American Saxophone Alliance Biennial Conference, University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, Cincinnati, OH
    Composer and pianist, with Jake Tilton (saxophone)
  6. Conf. Performance
    Rhapsody No. 1
    Society of Composers, Inc. National Conference, University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA
    Composer and pianist, with Jake Tilton (saxophone)

2017

  1. Invited Lecture
    The Music of Shankar-Jaikishan in Indian Cinema
    College of Charleston, Charleston, SC (Virtual)
    Asian Studies 240: Special Topics in Asian Studies: Survey of Bollywood Movies (Instructor: Leena Karambelkar)
  2. Poster
    Validity of the Adiabatic Born-Oppenheimer Approximation in the Tight-Binding Model of Graphene
    Harvard Undergraduate Research Opportunities in Science Fair, Cambridge, MA
  3. Talk
    Validity of the Adiabatic Born-Oppenheimer Approximation in the Tight-Binding Model of Graphene
    Harvard-MIT Society of Physics Students Conference, Cambridge, MA
  4. Talk
    Validity of the Adiabatic Born-Oppenheimer Approximation in the Tight-Binding Model of Graphene
    Harvard Program for Research in Science and Engineering (PRISE) Final Presentation, Cambridge, MA
  5. Poster
    Optimizing the MRI Signal Model to Estimate Diffusional Kurtosis
    Harvard Brain Science Initiative Undergraduate Neuroscience & Mental Health Research Poster Session, Cambridge, MA
  6. Conf. Performance
    Rhapsody No. 1
    Society of Composers, Inc. Snapshot Conference, Butler University, Indianapolis, IN
    Composer and pianist, with Jake Tilton (saxophone)

2016

  1. Invited Lecture
    Music in Bollywood Films
    College of Charleston, Charleston, SC
    A discussion on the history and theory of Indian film music. Asian Studies 240: Special Topics: Survey of Bollywood Movies (Instructor: Leena Karambelkar)

2015

  1. Talk
    Nonsteroidal Anti-inflammatory Drugs Decrease Viability and Produce Morphological Aberrations in Early Chicken Development
    National Junior Sciences and Humanities Symposium, Hunt Valley, MD
  2. Talk
    Nonsteroidal Anti-inflammatory Drugs Decrease Viability and Produce Morphological Aberrations in Early Chicken Development
    South Carolina Junior Academy of Sciences Annual Meeting, Furman University, Greenville, SC
  3. Talk
    Nonsteroidal Anti-inflammatory Drugs Decrease Viability and Produce Morphological Aberrations in Early Chicken Development
    South Carolina Junior Sciences and Humanities Symposium, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC
  4. Conf. Performance
    Verve Street
    Society of Composers, Inc. 50th Anniversary National Conference, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
    Composer. Performed by the University of Florida Big Band.

2014

  1. Talk
    Nonsteroidal Anti-inflammatory Drugs Decrease Viability and Produce Morphological Aberrations in Early Chicken Development
    High School Senior Thesis Defense, Academic Magnet High School, North Charleston, SC
  2. Poster
    Nonsteroidal Anti-inflammatory Drugs Decrease Viability and Produce Morphological Aberrations in Early Chicken Development
    Medical University of South Carolina Research Day, Charleston, SC