Pankaj Mehta

Pankaj Mehta is an American theoretical physicist whose research has involved biophysics, statistical physics, machine learning theory, and hard condensed matter theory. He is a professor of Physics at Boston University.

Mehta has worked on statistical mechanics tools in theoretical community ecology, biological information processing, and cell fate development models. In his work on theoretical ecology, Mehta has described consumer-resource models and statistical physics-based approaches to niche and coexistence theory.

Education and career Mehta received a B.S. in mathematics from California Institute of Technology in 2000. Mehta then received his PhD in physics from Rutgers University specializing in hard condensed matter physics in 2006 under the supervision of Natan Andrei. He is an affiliate faculty member of Boston University's Department of Biomedical Engineering, Center for Regenerative Medicine, and Biological Design Center. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society. Simons Investigator in the Mathematical Modeling of Living Systems (2014) Scialog Fellow, Molecules Come to Life (2014) Gerald and Deanne Gitner Family Innovation in Teaching Award (2014) Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship (2011)

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