My name is Soumya Banerjee. I am a Ph.D student at the University of New Mexico (UNM). My advisor is Prof. Melanie Moses.
I also collaborate with Dr. Alan Perelson and Dr. Michael Gastner.

My research interest is in computational immunology; specifically in the modeling of immune systems and properties like decentralization
and "increasing returns" exhibited by them which assist them in efficient elimination of pathogens.
I am also interested in looking at how city size affects distributions of facilities. My broad (ok, very broad) research goal is to have a
Grand Unified Theory of how system size affects the properties of 3 archetypal complex systems: immune systems, ant colonies and cities.
In other words: a) what happens to the flow of information, materials and energy as you make these complex systems bigger?
                      b) what happens to the topology/structure of the underlying network as you make these complex systems bigger?
                      c) are there common phenomena observed in these complex systems (e.g. decentralization, modularity, scale-invariant
                            response, etc) and why do you have these common features in systems which are so diverse?
  
I can be reached at - FIRST NAME AT CS DOT UNM DOT EDU