Shloka Janapaty is a first-year PhD student in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology co-advised by Simon Levin and Lars Hedin. She is interested in using tools from mathematics to examine (1) resource acquisition strategies in plant community assembly and (2) resource allocation strategies in wild animals, particularly phenotypic plasticity in life-history strategies and the emergent properties of trophic interactions. Previously, she earned her B.S. in Applied Mathematics at Columbia University.