Yogesh Goyal is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Cell and Developmental Biology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. His research focuses on the intersection of theory, computation, and single-cell resolved experiments to track and control cellular plasticity and fate choices in health and disease, particularly in cancer. Goyal leads an interdisciplinary research program that collaborates with artists, biologists, chemists, clinicians, computer scientists, engineers, mathematicians, and physicists to gain unique insights into biological systems. He holds a Bachelor’s degree from the Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar and a PhD from Princeton University, followed by postdoctoral training at the University of Pennsylvania specializing in Single Cell Biology.