Arunava Nag
Postdoctoral Scholar · University of Chicago

Computational spatial biology, multiplex imaging, and quantitative tissue modeling.

I am a postdoctoral scholar at the University of Chicago specializing in spatial omics and high-dimensional multiplex imaging data. My work focuses on quantitative modeling of tissue architecture, cell neighborhoods, and immune microenvironment organization.

I build scalable analysis pipelines for cell segmentation, phenotyping, spatial network modeling, and inflammation trajectory analysis to uncover spatial biomarkers and disease-associated tissue states.

I am particularly interested in translating spatial data into mechanistic insights and therapeutic hypotheses in immunology and inflammatory disease. My Ph.D. research leveraged large noisy real-world datasets to develop predictive models using statistical analysis, machine learning, and deep learning methods.

Experience

A short path through the research and engineering work that shaped this site.

Now

Postdoctoral Scholar, University of Chicago

Computational spatial biology focused on multiplex imaging, tissue architecture, cell neighborhoods, and immune microenvironment modeling.

Ph.D.

Computer Science, University of Nevada, Reno

Developed predictive models from large noisy real-world datasets using statistical analysis, machine learning, deep learning, and physically grounded simulation.

Industry

Senior Research Engineer, ROS-Industrial Asia Pacific

Built industrial robotics applications spanning computer vision, autonomous navigation, machine learning, and virtual reality-enabled training systems.

M.S.

Electrical Engineering, North Carolina State University

Worked on vision-guided collaborative robotics and motion planning for manufacturing systems using point cloud processing and computer vision.

Selected projects

Current spatial-biology research, earlier modeling work, and open-source tooling.

Simulation

UAV plume tracking in Gazebo

COSMOS was integrated with a physics-enabled robotics simulator to test odor tracking behavior under wind, gravity, and motion-control constraints.

Open source

Single-cell CAR T response modeling

Patient response modeling with Scanpy workflows, random forests, and convolutional neural networks.

Open repository
Open source

GPTalkTerminal

A command-line assistant interface built around the ChatGPT API.

Open repository
Open source

Gemini YouTube Summarizer

A YouTube summarization tool powered by Google Gemini models.

Open repository