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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.
Pankaj Mehta | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | California Institute of Technology Rutgers University |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Biophysics, statistical physics, theoretical ecology, systems biology, hard condensed matter theory |
| Institutions | Boston University Princeton University |
| Academic advisors | Natan Andrei, Ned Wingreen |
| Website | physics |
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.[1][2][3][4]
Education and career
editMehta received a B.S. in mathematics from California Institute of Technology in 2000.[5] Mehta then received his PhD in physics from Rutgers University specializing in hard condensed matter physics in 2006 under the supervision of Natan Andrei.[5] He was a postdoctoral scholar at Princeton University's departments of molecular biology and physics where he worked under the supervision of Ned Wingreen from 2006-2010.[5]
In 2010, Mehta became an assistant professor in the Boston University department of physics, later receiving tenure in 2015.[5] At Boston University, he is a member of the Faculty of Computing and Data Sciences.[6] He is an affiliate faculty member of Boston University's Department of Biomedical Engineering, Center for Regenerative Medicine, and Biological Design Center.[7] He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society.[8]
Honors
edit- Fellow of the American Physical Society, nominated by the Division of Biological Physics (2023), for "creative and impactful use of statistical mechanics tools in addressing a broad range of problems, from biological information processing and microbial ecology to machine learning theory."[8]
- Simons Investigator in the Mathematical Modeling of Living Systems (2014)[9]
- Scialog Fellow, Molecules Come to Life (2014)[10]
- Gerald and Deanne Gitner Family Innovation in Teaching Award (2014)[11]
- Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship (2011)[12]
Publications
edit- Mehta P, Wang CH, Day AG, Richardson C, Bukov M, Fisher CK, Schwab DJ (May 2019). "A high-bias, low-variance introduction to Machine Learning for physicists". Phys Rep. 810: 1–124. arXiv:1803.08823. Bibcode:2019PhR...810....1M. doi:10.1016/j.physrep.2019.03.001. PMC 6688775. PMID 31404441.
- Mehta, Pankaj; Schwab, David (14 October 2014). "An exact mapping between the Variational Renormalization Group and Deep Learning". arXiv:1410.3831 [stat.ML]. See Quanta and Wired magazines.
- Wenping Cui, Robert Marsland III, Pankaj Mehta (8 March 2024). "Les Houches Lectures on Community Ecology: From Niche Theory to Statistical Mechanics". arXiv:2403.05497 [q-bio.PE].
{{cite arXiv}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) From Les Houches School of Physics. - Mehta, Pankaj; Schwab, David J. (October 8, 2012). "Energetic costs of cellular computation". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 109 (44): 17978–17982. arXiv:1203.5426. Bibcode:2012PNAS..10917978M. doi:10.1073/pnas.1207814109. PMC 3497803. PMID 23045633.
- Mehta, Pankaj; Goyal, Sidhartha; Long, Tao; Bassler, Bonnie L; Wingreen, Ned S (17 November 2009). "Information processing and signal integration in bacterial quorum sensing". Molecular Systems Biology. 5 (1): 325. doi:10.1038/msb.2009.79. PMC 2795473. PMID 19920810.
- Fisher, Charles K.; Mehta, Pankaj (August 25, 2014). "The transition between the niche and neutral regimes in ecology". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 111 (36): 13111–13116. arXiv:1308.2969. Bibcode:2014PNAS..11113111F. doi:10.1073/pnas.1405637111. PMC 4246938. PMID 25157131.
- Wenping, Cui; Marsland, Robert; Mehta, Pankaj (21 July 2020). "Effect of Resource Dynamics on Species Packing in Diverse Ecosystems". Physical Review Letters. 125 (4): 048101. arXiv:1911.02595. Bibcode:2020PhRvL.125d8101C. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.125.048101. PMC 8999492. PMID 32794828. See Physics (magazine).
References
edit- ^ Cepelwicz, Jordana (January 26, 2018). "How Math Can Help Unravel the Weird Interactions of Microbes". Wired Magazine.
- ^ Wolchover, Natalie (December 15, 2014). "AI Recognizes Cats the Same Way Physicists Calculate the Cosmos". Wired Magazine.
- ^ Popkin, Gabriel (October 13, 2020). "A Physicist's Approach to Biology Brings Ecological Insights". Quanta Magazine.
- ^ Wolchover, Natalie (December 4, 2014). "A Common Logic to Seeing Cats and Cosmos". Quanta Magazine.
- ^ a b c d "ORCID". orcid.org. Retrieved 2024-03-23.
- ^ "Pankaj Mehta | Faculty of Computing & Data Sciences". www.bu.edu. Retrieved 2024-03-24.
- ^ "Pankaj Mehta | Center for Multiscale & Translational Mechanobiology". www.bu.edu. Retrieved 2024-03-23.
- ^ a b "APS Fellow Archive". www.aps.org. Retrieved 2024-03-18.
- ^ "Pankaj Mehta". Simons Foundation. 2017-08-17. Retrieved 2024-03-18.
- ^ Advancement, Research Corporation for Science. "Scialog® – MCL Team Awards". Research Corporation for Science Advancement. Retrieved 2024-03-23.
- ^ "CAS Physics Team Wins First Gitner Award | BU Today". Boston University. Retrieved 2024-03-23.
- ^ "Pankaj Mehta | Physics". www.bu.edu. Retrieved 2024-03-23.
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