Professor Dr. Krishna Shrinivas

Biography

Krishna Shrinivas is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at Northwestern University. His research focuses on understanding and engineering life at the molecular and cellular scales through theoretical and computational approaches. The Shrinivas lab adopts an interdisciplinary methodology, bridging the fields of biology, physics, machine learning, and engineering to decipher fundamental scientific mechanisms and to tackle translational engineering applications. The lab's current research efforts include probing mechanisms of genome organization and gene regulation, and developing physics-centered machine learning approaches to design biomolecules for health and disease. The Shrinivas lab is also extensively collaborating with various institutions, including the Center for Synthetic Biology and the National Institute of Theory and Math in Biology, enhancing its capacity to explore complex biological systems.

Research Interests