We work on the application of evolutionary game theory to understand the dynamics of groups and spatial systems and related topics.
Assistant Professor, Mathematics
Affiliate, Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
Affiliate, National Institute for Theory and Mathematics in Biology (NITMB)
Research Interests: Population dynamics, multilevel selection, evolutionary game theory, PDEs, dynamical systems, stochastic processes, pattern formation in ecological and social systems.
Email: dbcoone2@illinois.edu
BlueSky: @danielcooney1.bsky.social
Research Interests: Evolutionary Game Theory, Multilevel Selection, Spatial Pattern Formation, Computational Neuroscience, Infectious Disease Dynamics, Network Theory, Stochastic Modeling
(Advised by Partha Dey)
Research Interests: probability theory, random network, population dynamics, evolutionary game theory
Side Project: Work with Daniel Cooney on Spatial Pattern Formation
Research Interests: Mathematical biology, epidemiological and ecological modeling, population dynamics, evolutionary game theory and adaptive dynamics, multiscale modeling, ordinary and partial differential equations, stochastic processes, and pattern formation in biological and social systems.
Research Interests: Dynamical systems, network science, evolutionary game theory, stochastic processes
Research Interests: PDEs, dynamical systems, pattern formation in ecological and social systems
(Major: Math and Computer Science)
Research Interests: Dynamical systems, Computational Ecology, PDEs, Numerical Analysis, Social Systems
(Major: Mathematics)
Research Interests: Number theory, Mathematical biology, Computational biology, and Epidemiology.
(Major: Mathematics)
Research Interests: Population dynamics, PDEs, Dynamical system
In the Lab: Undergraduate IML Scholar, majoring in Mathematics [Jan 2024 to May 2025]
Current: M.S. Student in Mathematics at Virginia Tech
In the Lab: Undergraduate IML Scholar, majoring in Math and Computer Science [Aug 2024 to May 2025]
Current: Goldman Sachs
In the Lab: Undergraduate IML Scholar, majoring in Mathematics [June 2025 to May 2026]
Current: M.S. Student in Mathematics at the University of British Columbia
In the Lab: Undergraduate IML Scholar, majoring in Mathematics [Jan 2024 to Sep 2024]
Current: B.S. Student in Mathematics and Computer Science at the California Institute of Technology
In the Lab: Undergraduate (IML) researcher, majoring in Mathematics and Physics [Jan 2024 to Sep 2024]
Current: Ph.D. Student in PACM at Princeton University
In the Lab: MS Student in Applied Mathematics [Sep 2024 to May 2026]
Current: Ph.D. Student at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology
In the Lab: Undergraduate Researcher [Sep 2025 to May 2026]
Current: MS Student in Computer Science at University of California San Diego
In the Lab: Undergraduate IML Scholar, majoring in Statistics and Computer Science [Sep 2024 to May 2026]
In the Lab: Undergraduate IML Scholar, majoring in Mathematics [Sep 2025 to May 2026]
(Emmanuel College)
(University of California, Davis)
(Princeton University)
(Bryn Mawr College)
(Duke University)
(University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
(University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
(Colby College)
(University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
(University of Pennsylvania)
(NYU Shanghai)
(Princeton University)
(University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
(University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
(University of Pennsylvania)
(CDC)
(State University of New York at New Paltz)
(Durham University)
(University of Pennsylvania)
(Humboldt University of Berlin)
(ETH Zurich)
(Princeton University)
(University of British Columbia)
(University of Chicago)
(Purdue University)
(Purdue University)
*List of lab members is not exhaustive.