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Krishna Shrinivas

McCormick School of Engineering, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

Assistant Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering
Member, Center for Synthetic Biology
Member, National Institute for Theory and Math in Biology

About

Areas of Focus

  • Synthetic biology
  • Biophysics
  • Cell biology
  • Systems biology
  • Soft matter physics
  • Computational science
  • Machine learning

Work/Research

  • Developing physics-guided ML approaches for biomolecule and cell engineering
  • Modeling biomolecular organelles function and dysfunction in disease
  • Probing mechanisms of gene regulation
  • Fundamental theories of complex, squishy, active materials
  • Engineering adaptive and self-organized biology
  • Principles of computation in life

Career

Along with his lab, Shrinivas is interested in developing frameworks to model and decipher mechanisms that govern biomolecular organization for human health and bioengineering. Shrinivas previously led a independent research program as an NSF-Simons fellow of Quantitative Biology at Harvard and before that, obtained a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from MIT in 2020, where he trained in the lab of Arup K. Chakraborty.