Publications

Peer-Reviewed Publications

* denotes equal contribution

• 2026 — *Smart, M., *Ganguly, S., Metya, N., Morozov, A. V., and Sengupta, A. M.
  Attention as In-Context Empirical Bayes: A Two-Stage View via Particle Dynamics
  Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) 2026 (to appear)

• 2026 — Smart, M., Shvartsman, S. Y., and Mönnigmann, M.
  Dynamical principles of habituation across substrates and scales
  Annual Review of Control, Robotics, and Autonomous Systems (in press) Invited review

• 2026 — Patel, R. K., Zama, K., Smart, M., Eathirajan, R., Seskar, I., Mandayam, N., Ni, G., Mönnigmann, M., and Ramanathan, S.
  Electromagnetic Radiation Stimulated Learning in Perovskite Nickelates
  Advanced Science, 13(49), e75984

• 2026 — *Boon, M., *Smart, M., Persikov, A. V., van Reijmersdal, B., Maghbouli, M., Marmion, R. A., Carpenter, B., Shvartsman, S. Y., and Schenck, A.
  Dynamical modeling of individual sensory reactivity and habituation learning
  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 123(13), e2524738123

• 2025 — Smart, M., Bietti, A., and Sengupta, A. M.
  In-context denoising with one-layer transformers: connections between attention and associative memory retrieval
  International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) 2025 Selected for oral presentation (top 1% of submissions)
  Invited for republication in the JSTAT Machine Learning 2026 special issue (to appear)

• 2024 — Smart, M., Shvartsman, S. Y., and Mönnigmann, M.
  Minimal motifs for habituating systems
  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 121(41), e2409330121

• 2024 — Smart, M., Shvartsman, S. Y., and Mönnigmann, M.
  A minimal dynamical system and analog circuit for non-associative learning
  IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC) 2024, 577–582

• 2023 — Smart, M., Shvartsman, S. Y., and Nunley, H.
  A model of replicating coupled oscillators generates naturally occurring cell networks
  Development, 150(22), dev202187

• 2023 — Smart, M. and Zilman, A.
  Emergent properties of collective gene-expression patterns in multicellular systems
  Cell Reports Physical Science, 4(2), 101247

• 2021 — Smart, M. and Zilman, A.
  On the mapping between Hopfield networks and Restricted Boltzmann Machines
  International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) 2021 Selected for oral presentation (top 2% of submissions)

• 2021 — *Kirby, D., *Rothschild, J., *Smart, M., and Zilman, A.
  Pleiotropy enables specific and accurate signaling in the presence of ligand cross talk
  Physical Review E, 103, 042401

• 2021 — Smart, M., Goyal, S., and Zilman, A.
  Roles of phenotypic heterogeneity and microenvironment feedback in early tumor development
  Physical Review E, 103, 032407

• 2017 — Smart, M., Rajagopal, A., Liu, W-K., and Ha, B-Y.
  Opposing effects of cationic antimicrobial peptides and divalent cations on bacterial lipopolysaccharides
  Physical Review E, 96, 042405

• 2016 — Wong, M. J. Q., Liang, X., Smart, M., Tang, L., Moore, R., Ingalls, B., and Dong, T. G.
  Microbial Herd Protection Mediated by Antagonistic Interaction in Polymicrobial Communities
  Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 82(23), 6881–6888

Other Publications

• 2024 — Smart, M., Moreno, D. F., and Acar, M.
  Rationally reprogramming single-cell aging trajectories and lifespan through dynamic modulation of environmental inputs
  Cell Systems (Preview), 15(8), 676–678