Dissertations supervised



Selected awards and honors

  • Collaborative efforts between the Iyer-Biswas group and Prof Rudro Biswas leading to a recent publication in Molecular Biology of the Cell are featured in Purdue News: A more perfect status quo
  • Kunaal Joshi’s ‘exceptional contributions to the Department, College, and University as a whole’ have been recognized with the Purdue Bravo Plus Award.
  • Charlie Wright and Kunaal Joshi’s contributions to a recent Nature Communications publication on cells as master logisticians in transporting cargo around their interiors are highlighted in Purdue News
  • Kunaal Joshi is awarded the Bilsland Dissertation Fellowship award.
  • Mia Alexis Caruso is awarded a Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation research scholarship
  • The Living Histories series is featured in Physics Today.
  • Kunaal Joshi's work on “Beyond the Mythical Average Cell” in featured the Discovery Matters podcast.
  • Sri Iyer-Biswas serves as Discussion Leader for the session on Cell Morphology and Dynamics in the Gordon Conference on Bacterial Cell Bio and Dev.
  • Sri Iyer-Biswas chairs an APS-GSNP Symposium Session on “The Living Histories of Ideas”, APS March meeting 2023.
  • Kunaal Joshi and Sri Iyer-Biswas co-chair an APS-GSNP Session on “Collective Dynamics and Network Theory in Complex Systems”, APS March meeting 2023.
  • Ferdinand Ziegler is awarded the Ross-Lynn Fellowship..
  • Charlie Wright, Kunaal Joshi and Sri Iyer-Biswas' invited commentary on Cellular Learning is published as a Current Biology Dispatch.
  • Shaswata Roy is awarded a Purdue Research Foundation summer research grant.
  • Kunaal Joshi is awarded a Purdue Research Foundation summer research grant.
  • Kunaal Joshi's principle of emergent periodicity is featured in WIRED magazine.
  • Kunaal Joshi's principle of emergent periodicity is featured in Quanta Magazine.
  • Uchenna Osuamadi is awarded the “Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation” research scholarship.
  • Nora Wagner is awarded a 2022 NSF REU Fellowship.
  • Shaswata Roy is awarded a Purdue Research Foundation summer research grant.
  • Sri Iyer-Biswas' invited Voices essay, “Beyond the evocative picture”, is published in the Cell Systems compendium of essays on Waddington-like landscapes.
  • Adam Guerin is awarded the Kohn Family Graduate Fellowship as incoming Caltech Physics graduate student.
  • Sri Iyer-Biswas is an Invited Correspondent for the Cond Mat Journal Club.
  • Kunaal Joshi is awarded the Ross-Lynn Fellowship.
  • Dawith Lim is awarded the 2021 Gabriele F. Giuliani Award.
  • Andrew Santos is selected for a Fulbright year in 2020—2021.
  • Rhea Gandhi is awarded a 2021 NSF REU Fellowship.
  • Jack Stonecipher is awarded a 2021 NSF REU Fellowship.
  • Sri Iyer-Biswas chairs a Symposium Session on “Living timekeepers”, APS March meeting 2021.
  • Sri Iyer-Biswas co-chairs with Wallace Marshall a Symposium Session on the “Evolution of Cellular Complexity”, APS March meeting 2021.
  • Sri Iyer-Biswas' invited Voices essay is published by Cell Systems.
  • Sri Iyer-Biswas is a General Member of the Telluride Science Research Center (TSRC) Executive Committee.
  • Sri Iyer-Biswas is an invited Faculty Contributor to the Cellular Biological Physics Section of Faculty Opinions.
  • Sri Iyer-Biswas is elected Member At Large of the Executive Committee of the American Physical Society’s Division of Biological Sciences.
  • Sri Iyer-Biswas is Invited Key Participant, KITP Program on Cellular Energetics, 2019.
  • Sri Iyer-Biswas is an invited lecturer at the 2019 NSF q-bio Summer School, Rice University.
  • Sri Iyer-Biswas is an invited lecturer at the 2019 Complex Systems Summer School, Santa Fe Institute.
  • Sri Iyer-Biswas is an invited Advisory Board member of the JSMF-SFI theme on Complex Time: Adaptation, Aging, & Arrow of Time.
  • Kunaal Joshi is awarded the Peter Salamon Award for attending the Telluride Science Research Workshop on “Emergent Simplicity in Biophysical Dynamics”.
  • Sri Iyer-Biswas is a visiting member of faculty for Fall 2018 at Harvard Medical School (Systems Biology).
  • Dawith Lim is awarded the 2018 Richard W. King Undergraduate Award
  • Tristan Schefke is awarded the 2018 Margie and Don Bottorff Undergraduate Physics Scholarship
  • Sri Iyer-Biswas is an invited panelist at the 2018 Conference for Pretenure Women.
  • Michael Carlson is awarded the Lynn Fellowship.
  • Dawith Lim receives the Science Alumni Summer Research Fellowship.
  • Sri Iyer-Biswas is an invited lecturer at the 2018 Complex Systems Summer School, Santa Fe Institute.
  • Sri Iyer-Biswas receives the 2018 Showalter Trust Award.
  • Rachel Taubman is awarded a 2018 NSF REU Fellowship.
  • Adam Guerin is named a 2018 OUR Scholar.
  • Edwina Sunny receives the 2018 Lijuan Wang Memorial Award.
  • Dawith Lim receives the 2018 Richard W. King Memorial Award.
  • Sri Iyer-Biswas wins the Ruth and Joel Spira Award for Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching.
  • Adam Guerin is awarded a 2018 REU Fellowship by NYU.
  • Jake Crosser is inducted into the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Honor Society.
  • Adam Guerin is awarded the “Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation” research scholarship.
  • Sri Iyer-Biswas chairs a session for the “Thermodynamics of Computation” workshop, Santa Fe Institute.
  • Sri Iyer-Biswas is appointed an External Professor of the Santa Fe Institute.
  • Sri Iyer-Biswas is awarded a collaborative grant by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation.
  • Brandon Walker is awarded the Five-years Provost’s Graduate Excellence Fellowship by UT Austin.
  • Sri Iyer-Biswas is an invited lecturer at the 2017 q-bio Summer School, Colorado.
  • Elizabeth Spears receives the 2017 Lijuan Wang Award.
  • Andrew Santos receives the 2017 College of Science Outstanding Student Award.
  • Emma Dawson receives a 2017 Rossing Physics honorable mention award.
  • Dawith Lim is awarded a 2017 Spira Summer Research Fellowship.
  • Sri Iyer-Biswas is named a 2017 Scialog Fellow for Molecules Come to Life.
  • Sri Iyer-Biswas receives an Outstanding Research Presentation award at the 2017 Gordon Research Conference on Stochastic Physics in Biology.
  • Jacob McNutt is awarded a 2017 Summer Stay Scholar Award.
  • Chandler Nielsen is awarded a 2017 Summer Stay Scholar Award.
  • Sri Iyer-Biswas receives a 2017 Purdue Research Foundation grant.
  • Emma Dawson is awarded a 2017 NSF REU Fellowship.
  • Andrew Santos is named a 2017 Ascarelli Scholar.
  • Samuel Eschker is awarded an NSF Statistics Living-Learning Community Fellowship.
  • Elizabeth Spiers is awarded the 2016 Margie and Don Bottorff Undergraduate Physics Scholarship.
  • Emma Dawson is awarded a 2016 NSF REU Fellowship.
  • Elizabeth Spears is awarded a 2016 Summer Stay Scholar Award.
  • Jed Riebling is awarded a 2016 Summer Research Award by the Purdue Research Foundation.
  • Sri Iyer-Biswas receives a 2016 Purdue Research Foundation grant.
  • Sri Iyer-Biswas is an invited lecturer at the 2015 Gene Mazenko Symposium, Chicago.


Selected invited presentations

  • Laws of Life, Time and Chance, SFI Community Lecture at the Lensic Theatre, Santa Fe.
  • Emergent Simplicities in the Living Histories of Individual Cells, Physics Colloquium, Purdue University.
  • Emergent Simplicities in the Living Histories of Individual Cells, Harvard Medical School SysBio Theory Seminar.
  • Emergent Song: The Polyphonies of Living Timekeepers, 2023 APS March Meeting Symposium Session.
  • UChicago Biophysical Dynamics seminar.
  • UMich Biophysics seminar.
  • 3rd Telluride Workshop on Emergent Simplicity in Biophysical Dynamics.
  • 2nd Telluride Workshop on Emergent Simplicity in Biophysical Dynamics.
  • PNNL Data Analytics Summit.
  • Keynote Talk, CauloCon 3.0.
  • World Microbe Forum, invited session on Quantitative Approaches in Microbial Evolution and Ecology.
  • 2nd Annual Workshop on Stochastic Thermodynamics (WOST II), SFI.
  • Physics colloquium, CCNY.
  • Center for Studies in Physics and Biology Seminar, Rockefeller University.
  • Biophysics seminar, Augusta University.
  • Physics colloquium, Harvey Mudd.
  • APS March Meeting Symposium Session on “Living timekeepers”.
  • SMatCH seminar, Princeton CBE.
  • Center for Nonlinear Dynamics Seminar, UT Austin.
  • Dual Mystery Seminar, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India.
  • Cell Biology seminar, NIH/NCI CCR.
  • KITP workshop on Energetics of cellular dynamics.
  • Aspen Winter Conference on Cell growth control.
  • JSMF-SFI Workshop on Aging in single cells.
  • Physics colloquium, UC Merced.
  • Biomedical Engineering Seminar, Purdue.
  • Aspen Workshop on Information Processing in Single Cells, Aspen Center for Physics.
  • 1st Telluride Workshop on Emergent Simplicity in Biophysical Dynamics.
  • Santa Fe Institute Colloquium, Santa Fe.
  • Gordon Research Conference on Stochastic Physics in Biology at Ventura.
  • Laufer Center seminar, Stony Brook University.
  • Biophysics seminar, Arizona State University.
  • LASSP and AEP seminar, Cornell University.
  • Condensed Matter seminar, UMass Amherst.
  • Theory seminar, Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School.
  • Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems Seminar, Northwestern University.
  • Physics colloquium, Emory University.
  • Center for the Physics of Living Systems seminar, MIT.
  • Biosciences colloquium, Purdue University.
  • Theory in Biology meeting of the Simons Foundation, Boston University.
  • Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, Santa Barbara.
  • Center for Theoretical Biological Physics seminar, Rice University.
  • Physics colloquium, IUPUI.
  • Biophysics seminar, Georgia Tech.
  • Physics colloquium, Virginia Tech.
  • Center for Soft Matter and Biological Physics seminar, Virginia Tech.
  • Physics colloquium, University of Illinois at Chicago.
  • Santa Fe Institute seminar.
  • Purdue Physical Chemistry seminar.
  • Telluride Workshop on The Complexity of Dynamics and Kinetics from Single Molecules to Cells.
  • Biophysics seminar, Colorado State University, Fort Collins.
  • NSF-QCB Workshop on Cells as Dynamical Systems, San Francisco.
  • APS March Meeting, New Orleans.
  • Genetics seminar, Washington University in St. Louis.
  • Santa Fe Institute complexity seminar.
  • MidQBio Symposium, UIUC.
  • Telluride Workshop on Single Molecules: Theory Meets Experiment.
  • Telluride Workshop on Information Engines at the Frontiers of Nanoscale Thermodynamics.
  • Physics colloquium, Purdue University.
  • Center for Soft Matter Research colloquium, New York University.
  • Genetics, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology seminar, Virginia Tech.
  • National Institute of Standards and Technology colloquium.
  • Statistical Physics seminar, University of Maryland.
  • IEEE-EMBS Conference, Chicago.
  • Physics of Living Cells seminar, UIUC.