Evan Collins

I'm a biological engineering PhD candidate at MIT advised by Dan Anderson and Bob Langer. I work at the intersection of biochemical engineering and data science to build better nanomedicines.

I completed my bachelors and masters in biomedical engineering at Yale. I've previously worked at Click Therapeutics, D. E. Shaw, and Simplex Sciences.

My other academic interests include systems neuroscience and cognitive psychology.

Publications

Nature Communications
(2026)
Lipid Nanoparticle Database towards structure-function modeling and data-driven design for nucleic acid delivery

Collins E*, Ji J*, Kim SG*, Witten J, Kim S, Zhu R, Park P, Jung M, Park A, Manan R S, Rudra A, Jeang W J, Langer R, Anderson D G, Im W
Neurology
(2025)
Multitask Language Mapping to Visualize the Spatial Configuration of Polyfunctional Language Cortex

Chishti O, Collins E, McGrath H, Zhang T, Quraishi I H, Hirsch L J, Benjamin C, Damisah E C, Zaveri H P, Spencer D D, Sivaraju A
Nature Computational Science
(2025)
Self-driving labs for biotechnology

Collins E, Langer R, Anderson D G
Frontiers in Network Physiology
(2025)
Yale Brain Atlas to interactively explore multimodal structural and functional neuroimaging data

Collins E, Chishti O, McGrath H, Obaid S, King A, Qiu E, Gabriel E, Shen X, Arora J, Papademetris X, Constable T R, Spencer D D, Zaveri H P
Advanced Materials
(2025)
Antifouling Immunomodulatory Copolymer Architectures that Inhibit the Fibrosis of Implants

Jeang W J*, Wong B M*, Zhao Y, Manan R, Jiang A L, Bose S, Collins E, McMullen P, Rosenboom J, Lathwal S, Langer R, Anderson D G
Nature Biotechnology
(2024)
Artificial intelligence-guided design of lipid nanoparticles for pulmonary gene therapy

Witten J*, Raji I*, Manan R S*, Beyer E, Bartlett S, Tang Y, Ebadi M, Lei J, Nguyen D, Oladimeji F, Jiang A Y, MacDonald E, Hu Y, Mughal H, Self A, Collins E, Yan Z, Engelhardt J F, Langer R, Anderson D G
Nature Communications
(2024)
Mapping the structure-function relationship along macroscale gradients in the human brain

Collins E, Chishti O, Obaid S, King A, McGrath H, Shen X, Arora J, Papademetris X, Constable T R, Spencer D D, Zaveri H P
Brain Stimulation
(2024)
Systematic 1 Hz Direct Electrical Stimulation for Seizure Induction: A Reliable Method for Localizing Seizure Onset Zone and Predicting Seizure Freedom

Sivaraju A, Quraishi I, Collins E, McGrath H, Ramos A, Turk-Browne N, Zaveri H P, Damisah E, Spencer D D, Hirsch L J
Scientific Reports
(2022)
High-resolution cortical parcellation based on robust brain landmarks for precise localization of multimodal data

McGrath H, Zaveri H P, Collins E, Jafar T, Chishti O, Obaid S, Ksendzovsky A, Wu K, Papademetris X, Spencer D D
Management Science
(2020)
The Implied Truth Effect: Attaching Warnings to a Subset of Fake News Headlines Increases Perceived Accuracy of Headlines Without Warnings

Pennycook G, Bear A, Collins E, & Rand D G