Ayush Pandey

Ayush Pandey is an Assistant Teaching Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of California Merced. His work bridges synthetic biology, cyber-physical systems, and robotics, with a focus on modeling, formal verification, and education.

• Academic Rank: Assistant Teaching Professor
• Department: Electrical Engineering
• Email: ayushpandey@ucmerced.edu

His research spans three primary domains:

• Synthetic Biology: Developing modeling frameworks (e.g., BioCRNpyler) for modular biological circuit design, analyzing gene circuits subject to context effects, and characterizing biomolecular components in cell-free systems.
• Cyber-Physical Systems: Advancing assume-guarantee contracts (Pacti) for scalable system verification and robustness guarantees in model reduction of dynamical systems.
• Autonomous Robotics: Designing autonomous two-wheeler locomotion models, three-wheeled mobile robots, and low-cost bicycle navigation systems.

Recent trends in his publications highlight interdisciplinary integration of AI/ML with biological systems, including tools for high school students to engage with neural networks and methods for classifying large language model hallucinations.