News — AID Lab

The lab is recruiting Ph.D. students for Fall 2027 admission. Apply through the UR Physics & Astronomy program — mention the AID Lab in your statement.

Awarded the Simons Empire Faculty Fellowship by the Simons Foundation and Simons Foundation International.

Speaking at GeoCoW: Geometry of Complex Webs in Les Diablerets, Switzerland, this November.

“Collective dynamics on higher-order networks” published in Nature Reviews Physics 8, 146–159 (with F. Battiston, C. Bick, M. Lucas, A. P. Millán, and P. S. Skardal).

“Context parroting: A simple but tough-to-beat baseline for foundation models in scientific machine learning” accepted to ICLR 2026 (with W. Gilpin).

NSF Award DMS-2436231, “Closing the generalization gap of digital twins,” funded for 2025–2028 ($269,979, PI).

“Hypergraph reconstruction from dynamics” published in Nature Communications 16, 2691 (with R. Delabays, G. De Pasquale, and F. Dörfler).