About
The Varner Lab develops mathematical models and computational tools at the intersection of engineering, data science, and applied mathematics. Our current research focuses on quantitative finance, including agent-based market simulations, transformer models for financial time series, and computational approaches to risk management and portfolio optimization. We also maintain active projects in process modeling, computational biology, and systems and synthetic biology, where we continue to build predictive models of metabolic networks, signal transduction, coagulation, and cell-free protein synthesis. We are committed to Open Science and make our models, data, and code freely available.