Miraflor Santos

Ph.D. Candidate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

miras@mit.edu

I build probabilistic models of microbial communities in the open ocean. Currently, I am a PhD Candidate in the MIT-WHOI Joint Program in Oceanography where I am advised by Heidi Sosik and am a member of the Northeast U.S. Shelf Long Term Ecological Research team.

Interests

Biological Oceanography
Machine Learning
Probabilistic Modelling
Heliophysics

Academia

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

2019 - Present

Ph.D. Biological Oceanography

New York University Abu Dhabi

2014 - 2019

B.Sc. Biology

supervised by Prof. Shady Amin

News

I spent the summer as a Researcher with the Frontier Development Lab. I took their ML bootcamp and spent 8 weeks building heliophysics models. , May - September 2022.

Recent Publications

see my google scholar for the latest list

Diatom modulation of select bacteria through use of two unique secondary metabolites, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Ahmed A Shibl , Ashley Isaac , Michael A Ochsenkuhn , Anny Cárdenas , Cong Fei , Gregory Behringer , Marc Arnoux , Nizar Drou , Miraflor P Santos , Kristin C Gunsalus , Christian R Voolstra , Shady A Amin

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Projects

see my github for the complete list

The Sun as a Fully Resolved Star: 4pi EUV Irradiance

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Gaussian Process Plankton Model

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Symbiosis Short Film Competition: Tiny Wonders

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