Ilya Nemenman

Ilya Mark Nemenman (born January 8, 1975, in Minsk, Belarus) is a theoretical physicist at Emory University, where he is a Winship Distinguished Research Professor of Physics and Biology.

[1] He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society for "his contributions to theoretical biological physics, especially information processing in a variety of living systems, and for the development of coarse-grained modeling methods of such systems".

[2] He is a Simons Investigator[3] and James S. McDonnell Foundation Complex Systems Scholar.

[5] Nemenman also was a founder of the q-bio conference, and is a general member of the Aspen Center for Physics.

He studied for his master's degree in physics at San Francisco State University.