News (updated 2024.09)

• Pre-print “On the stability of gradient descent with second order dynamics for time-varying cost functions”
• Dan MacDonald received the Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship. Learn more here
• Pre-print “Strain Tracking with Uncertainty Quantification”
• Two new Postdocs have joined the Lab. Welcome Dan and Utkarsh.
• Podcast interview of Travis on The Microbe Moment
• Interview of Travis People in Control - IEEE Control Systems Magazine
• NIH R35 grant: “Machine learning and control principles for Computational Biology”
• Pre-print “Learning Microbial Dynamics at Ecosystem Scale”
• NIH R21 grant: “Tracking the microbiome: purpose-built machine learning tools for tracking microbial strains over time”
• NSF MTM2 grant: “MTM 2: The rules of microbiota colonization of the mammalian gut”
• Research Highlight from Harvard: Bug Buddies - Engineered bacteria create friendlier microbial neighborhoods