Collaborators

Active Collaborators

Alessandro Selvitella, Ph.D.

Department of Mathematical Sciences, Purdue University Fort Wayne. Alessandro is my primary collaborator on the mathematical and philosophical work. So far we have published the smooth embeddings paper (contracting recurrent networks driven by regular dynamics) and the caveats paper on the unfolding argument. More to come. He brings the analysis and PDEs; I bring the dynamical systems intuition and the neuroscience. It works.

Aaron Schurger, Ph.D.

Chapman University; Cognitive Neuroimaging Unit, INSERM-CEA, Paris. Aaron and I co-authored the caveats paper on the unfolding argument, showing that it fails when plasticity and temporal dynamics are taken into account. He brings deep expertise in the neuroscience of volition and consciousness.

Stanley Krippner, Ph.D.

Saybrook University. Stanley Krippner has decades of foundational work in dream research and altered states of consciousness. We collaborate on the Chaos-State Space Dream Model, which connects SST’s state space framework to the phenomenology of dreaming, lucid dreaming, and sleep-state transitions. His phenomenological expertise provides an essential empirical check on the theoretical framework.

Adam Kiefer, Ph.D.

Department of Exercise and Sport Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Co-director of the STAR Heel Performance Laboratory. Adam’s background is in complex systems and ecological psychology. We collaborate on analysis of healthcare data using nonlinear dynamical systems methods.

Dustin Long, M.D.

Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, University of Washington. Collaboration on COVID-19 perioperative research and NLP-based surgical site infection detection from clinical notes.

Active Mentees

Ian Jones

NLR/SII biomarkers and dexamethasone in perioperative outcomes.

Chris Eixenberger

Perioperative applications of NLP, including automated classification of SAFE (safety event) reports.

Former Collaborators

Craig Jabaley, M.D.

Department of Anesthesiology, Emory University. Craig and I collaborated on perioperative informatics, sepsis research, mobile health applications, and sugammadex studies across adult and pediatric populations. We had a highly productive collaboration at Emory.

Andrew Walters, M.D.

Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, University of Washington. Former Associate Medical Director of PPiQSO. Collaborated on perioperative quality measurement and outcomes research.

Former Mentees

Philip Chung, M.D.

Now faculty at Stanford. Philip was my Bonica Scholar (2019-2024) and my star mentee. He led the JAMA Surgery LLM paper on perioperative risk prediction and developed NLP pipelines for automated ASA Physical Status assignment.