My advisor was into that stuff, and some of my original efforts were to tie those together

The field I researched in was Symbolic Regression / Genetic Programming. My research was able to recover differential equations and systems of equations from data. We worked with GLEON to help scientists better understand lake dynamics through such systems

https://verdverm.com/projects/pge if you want to learn more

I'm no longer in academia, I'm working on ATProto things lately