Armita studied in Tehran and in Cologne and finished her PhD at the Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Cologne. In 2012 she moved to Princeton University as a James S. McDonnell postdoctoral fellow in biophysics and also a lecturer in Physics and the Lewis-Sigler Institute. In 2017 she started her Max Planck Research Group (MPRG) at MPIDS (Göttingen). She is currently an associate professor of Physics with affiliations at the department of Applied Mathematics  and Paul G. Allen school of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington (Seattle), and she is an affiliate investigator at the Fred Hutch Cancer Center (Seattle). CV


Mahan postdoctoral fellow, UW & Fred Hutch

Assya studied computer science at the Université de Montréal where she developed a machine learning model for gene expression data analysis and joined our group as an origami artist. Assya is interested in the impact of an individual's genetics on their immune repertoire.

graduate student, UW physics

Ella studied physics at Bucknell University, and joined our group as a volleyball player and visual artist. Ella is interested in describing protein shape space and investigating the sequence-structure-funciton relationship of proteins within the immune system.

Undergraduate student, UW CSE

Eric is studying computer science at UW and joined our group as a soccer player. Eric is interested in using machine learning to solve problems in molecular biology.

graduate student, UW CSE

Gian Marco studied computer science at Tufts University in Boston, and joined our group at UW as a scuba diver. Gian Marco is broadly interested in developing data efficient and principled deep learning models for biological discovery.

graduate student, UW Physics

Jerry studied physics at UC Irvine, where he developed computational and statistical methods used for experimental particle physics before joining the group, as a student cook and student pilot. Jerry is broadly interested in developing machine learning models and stochastic models for processes in immunology.


graduate student, UW Physics

Kevin studied physics at the University of Notre Dame where he studied two-dimensional topological materials, and joined our group as a guitarist. Kevin is broadly interested in using machine learning to study protein structure and function.

graduate student, UW Physics

Maya studied physics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and joined our group as a rock climber. Maya is interested in self emerging smart behaviors and information transfer in natural biological networks.

graduate student, UW Physics

McKay studied physics at Georgia Tech and UW where he did condensed matter experiment. He joined the group as a puzzle enthusiast and is interested in modeling and optimizing human immune response, specifically T-cells.

graduate student, UW AMATH

Obinna studied mathematics and biophysics at Amherst College (Massachusetts) and joined our group at UW as a film critic. Obinna is interested in applications of stochastic processes and optimization to biology.

Undergraduate student, UW CSE

William is studying computer science and applied mathematics at UW and joined our group as a hiker. William is interested in applying machine learning to problems in biology.

graduate student, UW Physics

Zach studied physics at the University of Florida and joined our group at UW as a chef.  Zach is working to construct and infer predictive models for evolution of immune B-cell receptors in response to evolving pathogens.



Alumni:

Michael Pun
UW physics grad. student (2018 - 2023) now: AI scientist at VantAI 

Quinn Bellamy
undergrad. researcher at UW (2021-2023) now:  Physics graduate student at ENS, Paris

Rhea Grover
NSF REU student at UW (2021-2023)
now:  Physics undergrad at UC Berkeley

Arman Angaji
graduate intern at UW (2022)
now: Physics PhD student at the University of Cologne

Uchenna  Nwaege
NSF REU summer student at UW (2022)now: Physics grad student at  UMichigan

Utheri Wagura
NSF REU summer student at UW (2022).  now: Physics undergrad at  MIT

Colin LaMont
postdoc at MPIDS (2018-2022)
now: postdoc at University of Oslo

Oskar Schnaack
PhD student at MPIDS (2018-2021)
now: Applied Scientist Generative AI @ AWS

Giulio Isacchini
PhD student at MPIDS (2018 - 2021)
now: postdoc at UC Berkeley 

Vincent Balerdi
PhD student at MPIDS and ESPCI (2018 - 2021) .
now: SupBiotech

Andrew Ivanov
undergrad. researcher at UW (2021)
now: Physics graduate student at Caltech

Ceyhun Eksin
postdoc at MPIDS (2018).
now:  Assistant Prof. at Texas A&M

Other short-term researchers and visitors of the lab:


Eli Lilleskov,  was a rotation graduate student at UW (2022) 

Kjartan van Driel, was undergraduate researcher at UW (2020) || now PhD student at the  Complexity Science Hub, Austria

Manny Munoz, was undergraduate intern at UW (2021) ||  CS undergraduate student at UW

Mari Torii-Karsch, was highschool  intern at UW (2020-2021) || now Undergraduate student at UC Berkeley