Josh Mueller

The DYNS Experience

DYNS offered flexibility and exposure to a broad intellectual environment, both of which were essential for my success in the program. The ability to take coursework that spanned biology, computer science, and engineering allowed me to connect concepts in my own research as well as prepare me for the next stage of my career, where I have been able to use my knowledge in health sciences and data analysis to inform public policy. Through DYNS, I also met incredible collaborators across UCSB who helped me succeed as part of an interdisciplinary research team.

Published as a Graduate Student

7.  Joshua M. Mueller, Neil Zhang, Jean M. Carlson, Julie H. Simpson, “Variation and Variability in Drosphila Grooming Behavior”. Front in Behavioral Neuroscience. (2022)

6.  Joshua M Mueller, Laura Pritschet, Tyler Santander, Caitlin M Taylor, Scott T Grafton, Emily Goard Jacobs, Jean M Carlson “Dynamic community detection reveals transient reorganization of functional brain networks across a female menstrual cycle”. Network Neuroscience, Vol 5, Issue 1, pages 125-144. MIT Press

5.  Zipeng Wang, Eric W Jones, Joshua M Mueller, Jean M Carlson, “Control of ecological outcomes through deliberate parameter changes in a model of the gut microbiome”. Physical Review E, vol 101, Issue 5. American Physical Society (2020)

4.  Joshua M Mueller, “Patterns of variability in brain and behavior across spatiotemporal scales”, University of California, Santa Barbara, (2020)

3.  Joshua M Mueller, Primoz Ravbar, Julie H Simpson, Jean M Carlson, “Drosophila melanogaster grooming possesses syntax with distinct reules at different temporal scales”. PLos computational biology vol 15, Issue 6 (2019)

2. Christos Andreas Makridis, Anthony Boese, Rafael Fricks, Don Workman, Molly Klote, Joshua Mueller, Isabel J Hildebrandt, Michael Kim, Gil Alterovitz, “Informing the Ethical Review of Human Subjects Research Utilizing Artificial Intelligence”. Frontiers in Computer Science vol 5 

1. Horng-Shen Chen, Kayla A Martin, Fang Lu, Lena N Lupey, Joshua M Mueller, Paul M Lieberman, Italo Tempera, “Epigenetic deregulation of the LMP1/LMP2 locus of Epstein-Barr virus by mutation os a single CTCF-cohesin binding site”. Journal of Virology vol 88 Issue 3 (1703-1713) Amiercan Scoiety for Microbiology (2014)

Post PhD 

After DYNS, I worked for one year (Fall 2020-Summer 2021) as the Health & Mental Health Legislative Policy Fellow for MOST Policy Initiative, a nonpartisan, nonprofit policy research organization in Missouri. The next year (Fall 2021-Summer 2022), I worked as the organization's Deputy Director. Then, I was a AAAS Science & Technology Policy Fellow at the National Artificial Intelligence Institute within the Department of Veterans Affairs in Washington, D.C. from Fall 2022-Summer 2023. Currently, I am an AI Policy, Ethics, and Governance Specialist in the same office.