I am interested in understanding collective and emergent behavior in out-of-equilibrium and disordered systems. My research employs methods in theoretical and computation condensed matter physics and applies to a wide range of biological and non-biological systems.

Working in close collaboration with experimentalists, the group focuses on the following problems in cell and tissue mechanics:

Mechnosensing and Mechanotransduction during collective cell migration.
Biomechanical models for morphogenesis and embryogenesis.
Understanding the relationship between cell shapes and tissue-level mechanical response.
Understanding the relationship between cell stiffness and tissue rigidity in primary tumors.
Pattern formation and collective behavior in epithelial wound closure.
How mechanical cues affect the epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition.
In soft condensed matter physics, the group focuses on:

Designing bio-inspired amorphous metamaterials with special photonic and sonic properties.
Non-linear rheology of dense active suspensions.
Origin of force chains in frictional granular matter.