Last updated in 2026 Sep.
For an updated list of all publications, please check my Google scholar page.
Last updated in 2026 Sep.
For an updated list of all publications, please check my Google scholar page.
Velocity differences have distinct effects on exclusion, coexistence, and bistability during range expansions
Hyunseok Lee, Daniel W. Swartz, and Kirill S. Korolev
A low-dimensional action-reaction structure dominates empirical microbial interactions
Hyunseok Lee, Yizhou Liu, and Jeff Gore
Optimizer-dependent training dynamics converge to the same one-third optimal data scaling
Hyunseok Lee, Mihir Basil, Yizhou Liu, and Jeff Gore
In review; Preprint
Topological flowscape reveals state transitions in nonreciprocal living matter
Hyunseok Lee, EliseAnne Koskelo, Shreyas Gokhale, Junang Li, Chenyi Fei, Chih-Wei Joshua Liu, Lisa Lin,
Jorn Dunkel, and Nikta Fakhri
Physical Review X [code & data] [Physics News and Commentary]
Cover article, featured in Physics Magazine
Selective excitation of work-generating cycles in nonreciprocal living solids
Yu-Chen Chao, Shreyas Gokhale, Lisa Lin, Alasdair Hastewell, Alexandru Bacanu, Yuchao Chen, Junang Li, Jinghui Liu, Hyunseok Lee, Jorn Dunkel, and Nikta Fakhri
Nature Physics
Genetically homogeneous sector morphologies emerge from anisotropic colony growth
Daniel W. Swartz, Hyunseok Lee, Mehran Kardar, and Kirill S. Korolev
Physical Review E
Repulsion from slow-diffusing nutrients improves chemotaxis towards moving sources
Blox Bloxham, Hyunseok Lee, and Jeff Gore
Nature Communications
Structured interactions explain the absence of keystone species in synthetic microcosms
Sivan Pearl Mizrahi, Hyunseok Lee, Akshit Goyal, Erik Owen, and Jeff Gore
The ISME Journal
Interfacial morphodynamics of proliferating microbial communities
Alejandro Martinez-Calvo, Carolina Trenado-Yuste, Hyunseok Lee, Jeff Gore, Ned S. Wingreen, and Sujit S. Datta
Physical Review X
Complex ecosystems lose stability when resource consumption is out of niche
Yizhou Liu, Jiliang Hu, Hyunseok Lee, and Jeff Gore
Physical Review X
Biodiversity is enhanced by sequential resource utilization and environmental fluctuations via emergent temporal niches
Blox Bloxham, Hyunseok Lee, and Jeff Gore
PLOS Computational Biology
Interplay between morphology and competition in two-dimensional colony expansion
Daniel W. Swartz, Hyunseok Lee, Mehran Kardar, and Kirill S. Korolev
Physical Review E
Resource competition can explain simplicity in microbial community assembly
Hyunseok Lee, Blox Bloxham, and Jeff Gore
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Diauxic lags explain unexpected coexistence in multi-resource environments
Blox Bloxham, Hyunseok Lee, and Jeff Gore
Molecular Systems Biology (2022)
Slow expanders invade by forming dented fronts in microbial colonies
Hyunseok Lee, Jeff Gore, and Kirill S. Korolev
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2022)
Resource-diversity relationships in bacterial communities reflect the network structure of microbial metabolism
Martina Dal Bello, Hyunseok Lee, Akshit Goyal, and Jeff Gore
Nature Ecology & Evolution (2021)
Environmental fluctuations reshape an unexpected diversity-disturbance relationship in a microbial community
Christopher P. Mancuso, Hyunseok Lee, Clare I. Abreu, Jeff Gore, and Ahmad S. Khalil
eLife (2021)
A quantum hydrodynamical description for scrambling and many-body chaos
Mike Blake, Hyunseok Lee, and Hong Liu
Journal of High Energy Physics (2018)
The dynamics of charged dust in magnetized molecular clouds
Hyunseok Lee, Philip F. Hopkins, and Jonathan Squire
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (2017)
The fundamentally different dynamics of dust and gas in molecular clouds
Philip F. Hopkins and Hyunseok Lee
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (2016)
Two-plasmon quantum interference
James S. Fakonas, Hyunseok Lee, Yousif A. Kelaita, and Harry A. Atwater
Nature Photonics (2014)