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Senior Researchers
 Bharath Ananthasubramaniam
Senior Investigator and Biological Rhythms Research Manager
Research
Organisms utilize temporal regulation and behavioral adaptations for growth, survival and reproduction with the ultimate goal of optimizing their performance as a species over evolutionary timescales. These adaptations to periodic biotic and abiotic environments can be either through passively driven exogenous timekeeping or through a tunable endogenous biological “clock” that is more prevalent and effective. Most robust timekeeping appears to be achieved through two canonical mechanisms -- entrainment and synchrony -- having either negative or positive feedback character. Moreover, the ecology of an organism is based on its place in a network of interactions, such as trophic, nutrient, spatial (habitat) and abiotic (environmental). Broadly, I argue in my research that understanding biological timekeeping requires identifying these (classes of) interactions across different levels of biological organization (intra- and inter- organismal) using a multiscale networked systems approach and I explore this in the context of mammalian circadian system, synchronous coral spawning, synchronous macroalgal division and Daphnia-algal population cycles.
Education
B.Tech., Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India, 2002
M.S., Electrical Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2004
Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2007
For more information on me and my research, including a comprehensive list of my publications, please click here.
 Eyal Dassau, Ph.D.
Senior Investigator & Diabetes Team Research Manager
Adjunct Senior Investigator Sansum Diabetes Research Institute (SDRI)
Research
Biomedical design and control: the application of process system engineering principles to design and control of automated insulin delivery system (artificial pancreatic β-cell) to improve glycemic control in type 1 diabetes mellitus patients
Process and product design with emphasis on medical and biomedical applications
Systems theory, modeling, simulation, optimization and control to medical, biological, and other complex systems
Education
B.Sc., Chemical Engineering, Technion Israel Institute of Technology, 1999
M.Sc., Chemical Engineering, Technion Israel Institute of Technology, 2002
Ph.D., Chemical Engineering, Technion Israel Institute of Technology, 2006
Honors
Otis William Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2008
Personal Webpage
News
ADA
2007 news flash
JDRF Reaches Milestone in Artificial Pancreas Project in Partnership with UC Santa Barbara and Sansum Diabetes Research Institute
Obstacles Diminish in Quest for the Artificial Pancreas
Santa Barbara researchers to test artificial pancreas
Artificial pancreas to help those with diabetes developed in Santa Barbara
Links
My Technion Webpage
Parallel
Genetic Algorithm (GA) Webpage
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