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Research Interests |
Group research on biomolecular computation
- DNA computation and DNA nanotechnology
- Algorithmic self-assembly
- In vitro models of genetic regulatory networks
- Enzyme-free signal transduction cascades and circuits
- Chemical self-replicating systems and evolution
- DNA and RNA folding
- Fault-tolerant computing
Research Publications.
DNA Lab Wiki.
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| Teaching |
CNS/Bi/Ph/CS 187: Neural Computation (Fall 2000-
2006, Fall
2007, Fall
2008)
(used to be CNS/Bi/Ph 185: Collective Computation).
CNS/CS/Bi 288: DNA and Molecular Computation (Winter 2001)
CS/CNS/Bi 191ab: Biomolecular Computation (Winter/Spring 2002, 2005,
2007)
CS/EE/Ma 129ab and/or c: Information and Complexity (Fall 2002, Fall 2003, Winter/Spring 2007, Winter/Spring 2008,
Fall/Winter/Spring 2009-2010)
Computing Beyond Silicon Summer School (June 17 - July 17, 2002; June 14 - July 9, 2004)
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| Collaborators |
Niles
Pierce's Group (Caltech ACM).
Shuki Bruck's Group
(Caltech EE).
Matt Cook's Group
(INI, ETH).
Eric
Klavins's Group (U. Washington EE).
Ashish
Goel's Group (Stanford MSE).
Fritz
Simmel's Group (LMU Munich).
Satoshi Murata's Group
(Tokyo Institute of Technology).
Bernard
Yurke (Bell Labs Physics).
Andrew
Turberfield (Oxford Condensed Matter Physics).
Deborah Fygenson's Group (UCSB Physics).
Milan Stojanovic
(Columbia University).
Hideo Mabuchi's
Group (Caltech Physics).
Peter Gacs (Boston University CS).
Len Adleman's
Group (USC CS).
Ned Seeman's
Group (New York University).
John Reif's
Group (Duke University).
Grzegorz Rozenberg's
Group (Leiden Center for Natural Computing).
An exceptional artist: Ann Erpino.
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| Past Life |
As a Visiting Scientist in Tom Knight's
Group at the MIT AI Lab.
As a Postdoctoral Scholar in Stan Leibler's group
group (when he was at Princeton University).
As a graduate
student in John Hopfield's
Group (when he was at Caltech)
and in Al Barr's Group at Caltech.
Hence: ---(old defunct molecular computation pages)---
and: ---(old SIRDS page)---
Working with Stephen
Wolfram and Matthew
Cook.
As an undergraduate at the University
of Chicago, and for half a year doing math in Budapest.
I went to
Evanston Township High School and
the best math summer camp ever.
First science teacher: Dad. His 1964 essay on "The Scientist as Poet" |
| Awards and Recognition |
My out-of-date C.V. (short)
I am a
MacArthur Fellow (2000).
I was awarded an NSF PECASE award (2001) and a ONR YIP award (2001).
MIT's Technology Review Magazine
has two issues where they describe my work: November/December 1999 (TR100 Award) and
May/June 2000.
Foresight Nanotech Institute's Feynman Prize in Theory and Experiment, shared with Paul Rothemund, 2006.
I was interviewed by Discover Magazine in the July-August 2009 issue.
I was also interviewed by Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News in October, 2009.
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| Workshops and Conferences |
Co-organizer:
CBCD workshop on Self-Replicating Chemical Systems, August 27 - 28, 2007.
Co-organizer:
Banff workshop on Stochasticity in Biochemical Reaction Networks, June 15 - 17, 2007.
Co-organizer: DNA World Workshop, Jan 6-8, 2005.
Co-organizer:
Banff workshop on dynamics, control and computation in biochemical networks
August 21 - 26, 2004.
Program Committee:
7th DNA-Based Computers Meeting, U. South Florida, June 10-13, 2001.
Program Committee:
6th DNA-Based Computers Meeting, Leiden University, June 13-17, 2000.
Co-organizer: 5th
DNA-Based Computers Meeting, MIT, June 14-15, 1999.
Co-organizer: DIMACS
Workshop on Evolution as Computation, Princeton, January 11 - 12, 1999.
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| Professional Societies |
ISNSCE ("Essence"): International Society for Nanoscale Science, Computation, and Engineering.
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