Data-Driven Models in Biological Materials

Presentations

• Dimensionality reduction in soft, adaptive flow networks

  Invited-In-person · Invited

  March 17, 2026, 3:30 PM – March 17, 2026, 4:06 PM

  Presenters

  • Eleni Katifori

    • University of Pennsylvania and Flatiron Institute

  Authors

  • Eleni Katifori

    • University of Pennsylvania and Flatiron Institute

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• Learning physics of pattern formation from images

  Invited-In-person · Invited

  March 17, 2026, 4:06 PM – March 17, 2026, 4:42 PM

  Presenters

  • Hongbo Zhao

    • University of California San Diego

  Authors

  • Hongbo Zhao

    • University of California San Diego

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• Dynamic Modeling of Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms 1: Anatomic Features and Equation Discovery

  Oral-In-person

  March 17, 2026, 4:42 PM – March 17, 2026, 4:54 PM

  Publication: "Dynamic Temporal Modeling of Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Morphology with Z-SINDy" (preprint)

  Presenters

  • JOSEPH PUGAR

    • University of Chicago

  Authors

  • JOSEPH PUGAR

    • University of Chicago

  • Junsung Kim

    • University of Chicago

  • Nhung Nguyen

    • University of Chicago

  • Andrei Klishin

    • University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa

  • Luka Pocivavsek

    • University of Chicago

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• Dynamic Modeling of Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms 2: Classifiers and Stress Tests

  Oral-In-person

  March 17, 2026, 4:54 PM – March 17, 2026, 5:06 PM

  Publication: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.29.25336910v1

  Presenters

  • Andrei Klishin

    • University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa

  Authors

  • JOSEPH PUGAR

    • University of Chicago

  • Junsung Kim

    • University of Chicago

  • Nhung Nguyen

  • Andrei Klishin

    • University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa

  • Luka Pocivavsek

    • University of Chicago

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• Morphoelastic Shell Growth Algorithm to Enable Efficient Modeling of Complex Evolutions in Patient-Specific Aortic Geometry

  Oral-In-person

  March 17, 2026, 5:06 PM – March 17, 2026, 5:18 PM

  Presenters

  • Charles Davis

    • University of Chicago

  Authors

  • Sanjeev Dhara

    • University of Chicago

  • Anna Gaffney

    • University of Chicago

  • Charles Davis

    • University of Chicago

  • Ziga Donik

  • JOSEPH PUGAR

    • University of Chicago

  • Junsung Kim

    • University of Chicago

  • Shreya Singh

  • Luka Pocivavsek

    • University of Chicago

  • Nhung Nguyen

    • University of Chicago

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• Clinical classification of thoracic aortic morphology informed by dynamical modeling of anatomic variables from CT data

  Oral-In-person

  March 17, 2026, 5:18 PM – March 17, 2026, 5:30 PM

  Presenters

  • Michael Mansour

    • University of Chicago

  Authors

  • Michael Mansour

    • University of Chicago

  • JOSEPH PUGAR

    • University of Chicago

  • Andrei Klishin

    • University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa

  • Luka Pocivavsek

    • University of Chicago

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• Weak form Scientific Machine Learning in the Life Sciences

  Oral-In-person

  March 17, 2026, 5:30 PM – March 17, 2026, 5:42 PM

  Publication: S. Minor, B. D. Elderd, D. M. Bortz, and V. Dukic. Weak Form Learning for Mean-Field Partial Differential
  Equations: An Application to Insect Movement. arXiv:2510.07786, Oct. 2025.
  A. Tran and D. M. Bortz. Weak Form Scientific Machine Learning: Test Function Construction for System
  Identification. arXiv:2507.03206, July 2025.
  N. Heitzman-Breen, V. Dukic, and D. M. Bortz. A practical identifiability criterion leveraging weak-form
  parameter estimation. arXiv:2506.17373, June 2025.
  R. Lyons, V. Dukic, and D. M. Bortz. Learning Structured Population Models from Data with WSINDy.
  arXiv:2506.24101, June 2025.
  N. Rummel, D. A. Messenger, S. Becker, V. Dukic, and D. M. Bortz. WENDy for Nonlinear-in-Parameter
  ODEs. arXiv:2502.08881, Feb. 2025.

  Presenters

  • David Bortz

    • University of Colorado

  Authors

  • David Bortz

    • University of Colorado

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• Trust Your Gut: Developing A Data Driven Model for Mouse Colon Motility Dynamics

  Oral-In-person

  March 17, 2026, 5:42 PM – March 17, 2026, 5:54 PM

  Publication: Planned Paper: Neuron Interactions with Interstitial Cells of Cajal Form an Intrinsic Pattern Generator for Proximal Colon Motility

  Presenters

  • Andrea Welsh

    • Texas A&M University

  Authors

  • Andrea Welsh

    • Texas A&M University

  • Bard Ermentrout

  • Adam Usmanov

  • Kristen Smith-Edwards

  • Wilmarie Morales-Soto

  • Cameron Watt

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• Inferring genotype-phenotype maps using attention-based models

  Oral-In-person

  March 17, 2026, 5:54 PM – March 17, 2026, 6:06 PM

  Publication: Krishna Rijal, Caroline M. Holmes, Samantha Petti, Gautam Reddy, Michael M. Desai, and Pankaj Mehta. Inferring genotype-phenotype maps using attention models. bioRxiv (2025). https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.04.11.648465

  Presenters

  • Krishna Rijal

    • Boston University

  Authors

  • Krishna Rijal

    • Boston University

  • Caroline Holmes

    • Harvard University

  • Samantha Petti

  • Gautam Reddy

    • Princeton University

  • Michael Desai

    • Harvard University

  • Pankaj Mehta

    • Boston University

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• Analysis of SANS profiles using CREASE to characterize the nanoscopic domains in lipid bilayer vesicles

  Oral-In-person

  March 17, 2026, 6:06 PM – March 17, 2026, 6:18 PM

  Publication: Analysis of SANS profiles using CREASE to characterize the nanoscopic domains in lipid bilayer vesicles (planned paper)

  Presenters

  • Rohan Adhikari Sridhar

    • University of Delaware

  Authors

  • Rohan Adhikari Sridhar

    • University of Delaware

  • Sri V. R. Akepati

  • Vaibhav Venkat

  • Arthi Jayaraman

    • University of Delaware

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• NMRCID: a deep learning framework for automated metabolite profiling from 1D NMR spectra

  Oral-In-person

  March 17, 2026, 6:18 PM – March 17, 2026, 6:30 PM

  Presenters

  • Masrur Akhter

    • Oklahoma State University-Stillwater

  Authors

  • Masrur Akhter

    • Oklahoma State University-Stillwater

  • Donghua Zhou

    • Oklahoma State University-Stillwater

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