Francis Motta

Francis Motta is an Assistant Professor at Florida Atlantic University. He received his Ph.D. from Colorado State University where his research focused on applied dynamical systems, pattern formation, and topological data analysis (TDA). After completing his Ph.D., Dr. Motta worked as a visiting assistant professor at Duke University where he developed computational methods at the interface of TDA and machine learning and worked closely with systems biologists modeling the dynamics of gene regulatory networks. Dr. Motta continues to advance methods that strengthen the applicability of TDA tools to complex, large-scale, and dynamic data; and develop mathematical models of gene regulation to better understand the genetic mechanisms driving dynamic phenotypes, including in host-pathogen interactions.