IDEAS Lab

Research

We strive to improve the human condition by advancing our understanding of socio-technical systems. Our approach involves conducting use-inspired research at the intersection of systems biology and artificial intelligence. Specifically, we test hypotheses by constructing mathematical/computational models and evaluating them with data, using rigorous — often novel — machine learning and AI methods.

We leverage this AI-in-the-loop framework to study the structure and function of living systems —from cellular-level processes, such as transcriptomic networks, to population-level processes, such as public health responses to epidemics. Our approach necessitates close collaborations with laboratory, medical, field, and public health researchers. As a result, our research spans a broad range of topics in complex systems and network science, including: systems biology, mathematical epidemiology, forecasting and predictive modeling, public health policy design and evaluation, bioinformatics and multi-omics, socio/biological network dynamics, and artificial intelligence.

To represent our diverse interests and shared research drive, we call the lab IDEAS: Information Dynamics and Emergence in Adaptive Systems.

Our Team

Undergraduate Students, Interns, Part-time Staff, and Coops

Harish Akula, Sofia Castaldi, Niraj Chaudhari, Scott Biggs, Malathi Gadupudi, Priyanka Gujar, Saumya Gupta, Shalini Karthyk, Sowmya Muthlaya, Aathira Pillai, Matthew Runyan, Nihar Sanda, and Sanika Thakur.

PhD Students

Jesseba Fernando, Sharaj Kunjar, Tamanna Urmi, and Janmejay Vyas.

Postdoctoral Researchers

Dan Zeilberg.

Research Scientists

Kelly Brock, Sebastian Bruch, Shiran Dudy, Arzu Tugce Guler, John Ortega, and Shantanu Jain.

Research Faculty

Ayan Paul.

Professors of the Practice

Vito Quaranata.

Staff

Amy Berg (Executive Assistant) and James Sheldon (Software Engineer).

Past members

High School: Maxim Audoly (Northeastern), Nitish Kaza (Northeastern), Meghan Hill (SFI), Sergio Mata (SFI), and John Chan (UT Austin).

Undergraduate, Interns, and Coops: Yuqiao Tang (Northeastern), Vitali Bahatyrevich (Northeastern), Tanuj Thakkar (Northeastern), Daisha Joseph (Northeastern), Ezra Levy (Northeastern), Georgia Christensen (Northeastern University), George Echeverria (Northeastern), George Chrisafis (UVM), Sophia Navarre (UVM), Haedi DeAngelis (SFI), Cody O’Ferrall (SFI), Gilia Patterson (SFI), Patrick Hunt (UT Austin), and Garrett Johnson (UT Austin).

Masters: Rushali Mohbe (Northeastern), Deven Gokhale (UVM), and Tandin Dorji (UVM).

PhD: Wan He (Northeastern), Chia-Hung Yang (Northeastern), and Mohammad Mehdi Zahedi (Northeastern).

Postdoctoral Researchers: Resmi Ramachandranpillai (Northeastern) , Thulasi Tholeti (Northeastern) , Munik Shrestha (Northeastern) and Brennan Klein (Northeastern).

Professors of the Practice: Laurent Audoly (Northeastern)