Vishal Sood

Vishal Sood is a Researcher and Post-Doctoral Fellow at the University of Calgary's Complexity Science Group, affiliated with the Department of Physics and Astronomy. He holds a PhD in Physics from Boston University (2006), where his thesis focused on interacting particle systems under Prof. Sidney Redner. His research bridges statistical physics, complex systems, and interdisciplinary applications in biology, neuroscience, and social dynamics.

Education: PhD in Physics, Boston University. Current position: Post-Doctoral Fellow (since 2006) at University of Calgary under Prof. Maya Paczuski's leadership. Collaborations include experts in microbiology, computer science, and neuroscience.

Research interests include: protein interaction networks (PINs), neural avalanches and plasticity, bacterial population dynamics, random walks on networks, boolean models of gene regulation, non-equilibrium economics, and social opinion formation. Key projects involve modeling protein interactions using TAP-MS data and analyzing neural connectivity plasticity in mice. He also explores the impact of network structure on social dynamics and economic equilibria.

Advising: Collaborates with graduate students Orion Penner (protein interaction modeling) and Jacob Foster (bacterial population studies). Presentations include work on noisy messaging in networks and first-passage properties of random graphs.

Labs/Teams: Core member of the Complexity Science Group, engaging with跨-disciplinary experts from microbiology to sociology.