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Andrew Hein is a theoretical computational biologist whose research focuses on the interface of behavior, ecology, and neurobiology. His lab investigates how organisms acquire, share, process, and respond to information, and how these responses influence behavioral evolution, ecological interaction rates, and ecosystem dynamics. The lab employs a mix of data-driven computational models and theories that are closely tied to data collected from laboratory and field experiments. A major focus of the lab is to extend modern artificial intelligence methods to transform behavioral ecological data acquired from these studies. Hein completed his PhD in theoretical computational biology at the University of Florida, collaborating with Jamie Gillooly in Biology and Scott McKinley in Mathematics. He served as a James S. McDonnell postdoctoral fellow at Princeton University, working with Simon Levin and Iain Couzin. From 2016 to 2022, he was the founding director of the Ecology Information Lab, which was jointly based at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Santa Cruz Laboratory and the UC Santa Cruz Institute of Marine Sciences.
Cornell University • Ithaca, NY
Teaching and conducting research in computational biology.
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