New Physics Faculty Member: Ilya Nemenman
Dr. Ilya Nemenman will join the Department of Physics as Associate Professor in Fall 2009. He joins Emory University as part of the Computational and Life Sciences (CLS) faculty hires program, and will hold a joint appointment in the Department of Biology.
Dr. Nemenman received his Ph.D. in Physics at Princeton University in 2000. After post-doctoral positions at the NEC Research Institute (Princeton), the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics (University of California, Santa Barbara), and the Joint Centers for Systems Biology (Columbia University Medical Center), he joined the Information Sciences group of the Computer, Computational, and Statistical Sciences Division at Los Alamos National Laboratory as a Research Scientist in 2005. While at Los Alamos, Dr. Nemenman was co-founder of the successful q-bio (quantitative biology) Conferences and Summer Schools on Cellular Information Processing. Dr. Nemenman's research involves the use of theoretical physics and machine learning methods to develop coarse-grained models of information processing in systems biology, including reverse-engineering of cellular networks, studies of learning and adaptation in sensory systems, and the development of large-scale neuromimetic signal processing systems.
