About

I’m a PhD Candidate and CompGen Fellow in the O’Dwyer Lab. Combining insights from my background in physics with extensive research, industry, and field experience in data science and computational methods, I integrate numerical and theoretical approaches toward the understanding and visualization of large, heterogeneous, and non-equilibrium ecological systems with an emphasis on microbial communities and phylogenetic theory.

• Widespread bursts of diversification in microbial phylogenies

  Details arXiv preprint

• Entanglement and Criticality in Quantum Impurity Systems

  Details APS Full-text arXiv preprint

• Quantifying Punctuated Evolution in Microbial Communities

  Tue, Aug 8, 2017, COS-41: Modeling II, Portland ESA 2017

• Widespread Punctuated Evolution in Microbial Communities (poster)

  Fri, Apr 7, 2017, 2017 Conference on Theory & Biology, Mathematical Modeling of Living Systems

• Punctuated gradualism in the phylodynamics of the Earth microbiome

  Sat, Feb 11, 2017, 19th Annual Graduate Student Symposium

• Coarse-grained phylogeny reconstruction over large-scale microbial datasets

  Fri, Sep 30, 2016, CompGen September meeting

• Birth and death in the era of innovations and disturbances

  Wed, Aug 3, 2016, Predicting the Response of Host-associated Microbiomes to Disturbance, SFI working group

• Elements of the renormalization group in diversity and phylogenetics

  Fri, Oct 23, 2015, Information Theory, Ecosystems and Schrödinger’s Paradox, SFI working group

• Phylogenetic theory and the scaling of diversity in the Earth microbiome

  Wed, Aug 12, 2015, 100th Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of America, Ecological Science at the Frontier

• doucetb2@illinois.edu
• Morrill Hall 181, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, 61801, USA