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Medjool Date Sipping Liquor
In the summer, I created Byblos, which was an ode to the flavors of the Levant, specifically, a watermelon feta salad. The Levant is home to a rich, cultural heritage of really great flavors and foods. In some ways, these combinations are the most...
Post · December 02, 2025
🌱 What if we could understand and speak “Plant”?
This question guides much of my curiosity as a molecular geneticist. Plants already communicate with the world around them. They sense stress, recruit microbial partners, and reshape their own gene expression to survive. What inspires me is imagin...
Post · December 02, 2025
🌿 I have learned that good mentors do not just advise, they listen.
Over the past months, I have been working with an amazing team to develop a mentoring training program focused on Social Identity Matters in Mentoring, and it has made me reflect deeply on what mentorship really looks like in practice. These conve...
Post · December 02, 2025
🎉 A special milestone in my scientific journey.
Our latest paper, “Transcriptional dynamics of nitrogen fixation and senescence in soybean nodules: A dual perspective on host and Bradyrhizobium regulation,” is now published in Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions. Read it here: https://lnkd.in/...
Post · December 02, 2025
Domain-Specific Tensor Languages
After a few rejections elsewhere (ICFP'23, POPL'24), the much improved paper on Domain-Specific Tensor Languages has now been submitted to JFP for review and uploaded to arXiv for reference. Comments welcome!
Domain-Specific Tensor Languages
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Post · December 02, 2025
Dimensional Analysis meets Dependent Types
(About a pre-print by Nicola Botta & Patrik Jansson)
Specialization in the physical sciences has widened the gap between the languages of mathematical physics and those of functional programming (FP). While computer-based modelling critically nee...
Post · December 02, 2025