People
Principal investigator
Yuanzhao Zhang
Simons Empire Assistant Professor
Broadly, I am interested in systems that exhibit rich emergent behaviors while remaining amenable to theoretical analysis. Half jokingly, I like to say that I am into the simplest complex systems and not-too-nonlinear dynamics. Before joining the University of Rochester, I was an Omidyar Fellow at the Santa Fe Institute and a Schmidt Science Fellow at Cornell working with Steven Strogatz. I received my Ph.D. in Physics from Northwestern, advised by Adilson Motter.
Team
Declan Norton
Postdoctoral researcher · since September 2026
Declan received his Ph.D. in physics from the University of Maryland in 2026. He works on machine learning for dynamical systems, including reservoir computing, generalization to unseen state space, and forecasting from short time series. Google Scholar