Kevin Brown

Assistant Professor
kevin.brown@oregonstate.edu

Office: 541-737-8251

Pharmacy Building

Pharmacy Building 317

1601 SW Jefferson Avenue

1601 SW Jefferson Avenue
Corvallis, OR 97331
Education: 

B.S. in Physics and B.A. in Mathematics, Louisiana State University, 1998

PhD in Theoretical Physics, Cornell University, 2003

Helen Hay Whitney Foundation Fellow, Harvard University, 2004-2007

Postdoctoral Scholar, University of California, Santa Barbara, Department of Physics 2007-2012

Employment: 

Research Assistant Professor, University of Connecticut, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and Department of Marine Sciences, 2011-2013

Assistant Professor, University of Connecticut, Departments of Biomedical Engineering, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Physics, and Marine Sciences, 2013-2018

Assistant Professor, Oregon State University, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Chemical, Biological, and Environmental Engineering, 2018-present

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At OSU
Affiliated with: 
Pharmaceutical Science
Headquarters: 
OSU Main Campus
Faculty Type: 
Pharmaceutical Sciences
Research/Career Interests: 

I am a complex systems scientist.  I study complex biological systems, particularly those arising in systems biology, systems neuroscience, and cognitive science.  I am the originator of “Sloppy Models,” a theory of parameter space geometry in large nonlinear models with many underdetermined parameters. I have studied networks in molecular biology, neuroimaging, and cognitive science.  I employ methodology from dynamical systems, network theory, Bayesian and nonparametric statistics, computational biology, and statistical signal processing.  I employ a mix of data-driven and model-driven approaches.  My work is tightly connected to experimental data, and I have many productive collaborations with experimentalists.

Functional Group: 
Faculty