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.
Armita joined Yale in January 2026 as the Associate Director of Theoretical Sciences for the Yale Center for Systems and Engineering Immunology (CSEI), with appointments in the departments of Immunobiology, Biomedical Engineering, and Physics. Prior to Yale, she was an associate professor of Physics at the University of Washington (Seattle), an affiliate investigator at the Fred Hutch Cancer Center, and a Max Planck Research Group Leader at the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization in Germany. CV
graduate student, Yale BME
Darin studied physics at the Georgia Institute of Technology where he studied fluid mechanics and turbulence, and joined our group as a linguist. Darin is interested in developing machine learning tools and applying statistical physics to understand immune system dynamics.
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.
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.
associate research scientist, Yale IBIO & CSEI
Jakub studied physics at the University of Texas at Austin (BS), University of Amsterdam (MS), and Emory University (PhD). As a postdoc he studied mathematical biology, population genetics and biophysics at the University of Pennsylvania with Josh Plotkin, and MPIDS in Göttingen with Armita. Jakub then worked at Dyno Therapeutics as a computional biologist and machine learning researcher. Jakub joined our group as the master of rituals, and has interests including machine learning applied to biology, protein science, and immune receptors in particular.
graduate student, Yale 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 MolE (co-advised with Doug Fowler)
Manali studied bioengineering at UC Berkeley and joined our group as a swimmer and dancer. Manali is interested in developing high-throughput and computational approaches to understand how cells integrate complex signals to control fate and function.
graduate student, Yale BME
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 AMATH
Obinna studied mathematics and biophysics at Amherst College (Massachusetts) and joined our group as a film critic. Obinna is interested in applications of stochastic processes and optimization to biology.
Arnav Nagle, was a rotation graduate student at UW (2025)
Jerry Li, was a rotation graduate student at UW (2024-2025)
MacKay Oyler, was a rotation graduate student at UW (2024)
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