# People ## Current Members [### Cengiz Pehlevan ](/people/cengiz-pehlevan) Associate Professor of Applied Mathematics Kempner Institute Associate Faculty ![CP](/sites/g/files/omnuum6471/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/pehlevan/files/cengiz_edited_small.jpg?itok=fQUcvxiW) [### Hamza Chaudhry ](/people/hamza-chaudhry)Applied Math Graduate Student ![Hamza Chaudhry](/sites/g/files/omnuum6471/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/pehlevan/files/professional_hamoo.jpg?itok=MGffQ4Pm) [### David Clark ](/people/david-clark)Kempner Research Fellow ![David Clark](/sites/g/files/omnuum6471/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2025-09/davidclark.png?h=ade17e58&itok=s2N4eh5O) [### Indranil Halder ](/people/indranil-halder)Research Associate ![Indranil Halder](/sites/g/files/omnuum6471/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/pehlevan/files/indranilhalder.jpg?itok=IQNyDcMR) [### Clarissa Lauditi ](/people/clarissa-lauditi)Postdoctoral Fellow in Applied Mathematics ![Clarissa Lautidi Profile Photo](/sites/g/files/omnuum6471/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/pehlevan/files/cl.jpeg?itok=BVTw_fKa) [### Itay Lavie ](/people/itay-lavie)Applied Math Graduate Student ![Itay](/sites/g/files/omnuum6471/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2025-08/IMG_20230303_173705~2_0.png?itok=EoAKo7Lh) [### Adam Lee ](/people/adam-lee)Computer Science Graduate Student (joint with Bence Olveczky) ![adam](/sites/g/files/omnuum6471/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/pehlevan/files/adam.jpeg?itok=Gh8pgj0D) [### Mary Letey ](/people/mary-letey)Applied Math Graduate Student ![Mary Letey](/sites/g/files/omnuum6471/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2025-09/Mary%20Letey%20005.jpeg?itok=clMGU0-D) [### Alex Meterez ](/people/alex-meterez)Computer Science Graduate Student (joint with Sham Kakade) ![Alex Meterez](/sites/g/files/omnuum6471/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/pehlevan/files/alexmeterez.jpeg?itok=Hu7i_Wkk) [### Mo Osman ](/people/mo-osman)Neuroscience Graduate Student (joint with Rachel Wilson) ![Mo Osman](/sites/g/files/omnuum6471/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/pehlevan/files/mo-osman.jpeg?itok=auyer5A3) [### Billy Qian ](/people/billy-qian-2)Biophysics Graduate Student ![billy qian profile photo](/sites/g/files/omnuum6471/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/pehlevan/files/billyqian.jpg?itok=ors7-BB8) [### Ben Ruben ](/people/ben-ruben)Biophysics Graduate Student ![Ben](/sites/g/files/omnuum6471/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/pehlevan/files/benheadshot.jpg?itok=A9A-3exz) [### Sabarish Sainathan ](/people/sabarish-sainathan)Computer Science Graduate Student ![Sab](/sites/g/files/omnuum6471/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/pehlevan/files/image_from_ios_2_01.jpg?itok=raD4Fy_L) [### William Tong ](/people/william-tong)Applied Math Graduate Student ![William](/sites/g/files/omnuum6471/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/pehlevan/files/william_tong_headshot.jpg?itok=d1l33JmE) [### Ningjing Xia ](/people/ningjing-xia)Neuroscience Graduate Student (joint with Venki Murthy) ![Ningjing Xia](/sites/g/files/omnuum6471/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/pehlevan/files/image_from_ios.jpg?itok=kkiuXyIH) [### Charles Zhang ](/people/charles-zhang)Computer Science Graduate Student (joint with Bence Olveczky) ![Charles](/sites/g/files/omnuum6471/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2025-08/EDFF14F8-FF35-40E8-BDEE-1B51D5E99581_1_201_a.jpeg?itok=P3U_Wr5o) ## Collaborators [### Blake Bordelon ](/people/blake-bordelon)Applied Math Graduate Student -> CMSA Postdoctoral Fellow -> Assistant Professor at UT Austin Oden Institute and Department of Neuroscience ![Blake Bordelon](/sites/g/files/omnuum6471/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/pehlevan/files/biopic_1.jpg?itok=WgeujLUC) [### M Ganesh Kumar ](/people/m-ganesh-kumar)Postdoctoral Fellow (Joint with Ba, Janson and Barak groups) -> Max Planck Institute of Biological Cybernetics ![Ganesh](/sites/g/files/omnuum6471/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/pehlevan/files/ganesh_informal_square.jpg?itok=x5NHsgfF) [### Binxu Wang ](/people/binxu-wang)Kempner Research Fellow ![Binxu Wang](/sites/g/files/omnuum6471/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2025-09/WangBinxu_HR_02_PSED.jpg?itok=wLEY46SE) [### Jacob Zavatone-Veth ](/people/jacob-zavatone-veth)Physics Graduate Student -> Junior Fellow (Harvard Society of Fellows) ![Jacob Zavatone-Veth](/sites/g/files/omnuum6471/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/pehlevan/files/jzv_photo_square.jpg?itok=vglE04Qt) ## Alumni [### Berke Altiparmak ](/people/berke-altiparmak)Master's Student [### Alex Atanasov ](/people/alex-atanasov)Physics Graduate Student -> Postdoc -> D.E. Shaw [### Elie Attias ](/people/elie-attias)Master Student -> Palantir Technologies [### Blake Bordelon ](/people/blake-bordelon)Applied Math Graduate Student -> CMSA Postdoctoral Fellow -> Assistant Professor at UT Austin Oden Institute and Department of Neuroscience [### John Breedis ](/people/john-breedis)Computational Science & Engineering Graduate Student [### Abdulkadir Canatar ](/people/abdulkadir-canatar)Physics Graduate Student [2019-2022] -> Flatiron Institute [### Hugo Cui ](/people/hugo-cui)Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard CMSA -> Laboratoire de Mathématiques d'Orsay (LMO) and CNRS [### Matthew Farrell ](/people/matthew-farrell)Swartz Postdoctoral Fellow -> RIKEN [### Fabrizio Forte ](/people/fabrizio-forte)Visiting Master Student [### Ugne Klibaite ](/people/ugne-klibaite)MBB Postdoctoral Fellow (joint with Ölveczky Lab) -> Ölveczky Lab [### Mohit Kulkarni ](/people/mohit-kulkarni)Master's Student in Neural Systems and Computation (ETHZ) [### M Ganesh Kumar ](/people/m-ganesh-kumar)Postdoctoral Fellow (Joint with Ba, Janson and Barak groups) -> Max Planck Institute of Biological Cybernetics [### Tanishq Kumar ](/people/tanishq-kumar)Mathematics Undergraduate Student -> PhD student in Stanford CS [### Pierre-David Letourneau ](/people/pierre-david-letourneau)Master's Student - Principal Engineer at Qualcomm [### Rong Liu ](/people/rong-liu)Master's Student in Computational Science and Engineering [2019-2020] -> Facebook [### Anindita Maiti ](/people/anindita-maiti-1)Postdoctoral Fellow -> Perimeter Institute [### Paul Masset ](/people/paul-masset)Postdoctoral Fellow -> Assistant Professor at McGill University [### Shanshan Qin ](/people/shanshan-qin)Postdoctoral Fellow -> Assistant Professor at Shanghai Jiao Tong University [### Harsh Sikka ](/people/harsh-sikka)Master's Student in Biology [2019-2020] -> Research Scientist at Perspecta Labs [### Arvin Subramaniam ](/people/arvin-subramaniam)Bertarelli Fellow, Master's Student in EPFL [2019-2020] -> Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization [### Nikhil Vyas ](/people/nikhil-vyas)Postdoctoral fellow (joint with Barak, Janson and Ba groups) -> OpenAI [### Ruoxi Yang ](/people/ruoxi-yang)Master's Student in Computational Science and Engineering [### Sheng Yang ](/people/sheng-yang)Master Student in Data Science [### Jacob Zavatone-Veth ](/people/jacob-zavatone-veth)Physics Graduate Student -> Junior Fellow (Harvard Society of Fellows)