Avery Karlin

• § Aliotta, E., Karlin, A., Tan, X., Crane, C., Reyngold, M., & Tyagi, N. (2026). Targeting and monitoring MRI-guided ablative radiotherapy for pancreatic cancer with online diffusion-weighted imaging: Towards biologically adaptive radiotherapy. Radiotherapy and Oncology. Radiotherapy and Oncology — under review — 2026
• § Karlin, A. (2026). Structure-first mining of the metagenomic dark proteome finds serine hydrolases but does not extend PET-hydrolase discovery beyond sequence homology. GigaScience. GigaScience — submitted — 2026
• § Karlin, A. (2026). Calibration and efficiency of uncertainty estimates in intravoxel incoherent motion imaging: Quantile intervals, cross-paradigm comparison, and a Cramér–Rao audit of amortized posteriors. NMR in Biomedicine. NMR in Biomedicine — under review — 2026
• § Karlin, A. (2026). Distribution-free conformal coverage for IVIM parameter maps, and the identifiability wall in the pseudo-diffusion compartment. Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. Magnetic Resonance in Medicine — under review — 2026
• § Karlin, A. (2026). Chimera collapse ages: Topology-dependent finite-size scaling in mean-field and ring oscillator systems. Nonlinear Dynamics. Nonlinear Dynamics — under review — 2026
• § Karlin, A. (2026). Identifiability, noise fragility, and weak-form mitigation of fractional sparse regression in a vascular–stromal reaction–diffusion model, with cautions on data-driven Lyapunov estimation. Nonlinear Science. Nonlinear Science — under review — 2026
• § Martynenko, S., Bhandari, B., & Yoo, J. (2023). Measurement of the neutron cross section on argon between 95 and 720 MeV. Phys. Rev. D, 107, 072009. (CAPTAIN Collaboration) Phys. Rev. D — vol. 107 — 2023
• § Taylor, C. E., Bhandari, B., Bian, J., Bilton, K., Callahan, C., Chaves, J., … & Yoo, J. (2021). The Mini-CAPTAIN liquid argon time projection chamber. Nucl. Instrum. Methods A, 1001, 165131. NIM-A — vol. 1001 — 2021
• § Bhandari, B., Bian, J., Bilton, K., Callahan, C., Chaves, J., Chen, H., … & CAPTAIN Collaboration. (2019). First measurement of the total neutron cross section on argon between 100 and 800 MeV. Phys. Rev. Lett., 123(4), 042502. Phys. Rev. Lett. — vol. 123 — 2019

I think about who I am the way I think about the systems I build — as a layered architecture. A philosophical and creative foundation supports a middleware of systems thinking, which in turn runs the application layer of my work as a physicist and researcher. Below is that stack, alongside the personal symbol that encodes it.

Personal symbol
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The Symbol

Chaos, bound into order

A snarl of intertwined iron on the left — raw, tangled possibility — resolves rightward into nested geometric frames and an ornate tungsten ring. A single golden chain threads through both, refusing to let disorder and structure exist apart from one another.

It is the whole ethos in one image: creative chaos and engineered structure are not opposites to be reconciled but two ends of one continuous chain. The order is only meaningful because it is forged from the tangle, and the tangle is only generative because something carries it toward form.

The Pyramid of Avery Apex — what I do  ·  Base — what I am

Pyramid of Avery
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