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| Soumya Banerjee |
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| complex biological systems alliance, |
| Regular Member |
| Personal Web Site: |
| Main page: http://www.mirlabs.net/global/index.php?c=main&a=person&id=1008 |
| Short Biography |
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Soumya Banerjee has a PhD in Computer Science from the University of New Mexico, USA. He has recently completed a post-doctoral research fellowship at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Physiology in Germany. Prior to graduate school, he was a software engineer working in the financial services sector for Fortune 500 clients. His work is at the intersection of computer science and biology – he uses tools from computer science to study biological systems and takes inspiration from biological systems to design more efficient computer systems: 1) He uses computer programs and mathematical models to simulate and study the immune system in order to understand its role in health and disease. 2) His work also involves taking inspiration from the immune system and suggests how to build distributed systems (consisting of thousands of connected computers) with faster search and response characteristics. He works closely with scientists from other domains, especially experimentalists and biologists. His work has been recognized with a University of New Mexico Student Award for Innovation in Informatics in 2010. He takes pride in writing industrial-strength software, which he attributes to years of working in industry and skills honed in academia. As of December 2012, he was ranked worldwide within the top 500 on MATLAB Central (an online repository for computer code contributed by users all over the world). He is on the editorial board for the Journal of Communications Engineering and Networks and on the program committee of the International Conference on Artificial Immune Systems. |
| List of top 5 publications in the last 5 years |
1) The Value of Inflammatory Signals in Adaptive Immune Responses,
S. Banerjee, D. Levin, M. Moses, F. Koster and S. Forrest. The 10th
International Conference on Artificial Immune Systems (ICARIS), 2011, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume 6825/2011, 1-14, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-22371-6_1 (pdf) (link) (bibTeX)
2) Biologically Inspired Design Principles for Scalable, Robust, Adaptive, Decentralized Search and Automated Response (RADAR), M. Moses and S. Banerjee,
Proceedings of the 2011 IEEE Conference on Artificial Life:30-37. DOI: 10.1109/ALIFE.2011.5954663. (pdf) (arXiv) (bibTeX) 3) Modular RADAR: An Immune System Inspired Search and Response Strategy for Distributed Systems,
S. Banerjee & M. Moses. The 9th International Conference on
Artificial Immune Systems (ICARIS), 2010, Lecture Notes in Computer
Science, Volume 6209/2010, 116-129, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-14547-6_10(preprint) (pdf) (arXiv) (link) (bibTeX)
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| List of top 5 academic activities during the last 5 years |
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2010 UNM Student Award for Innovation in Informatics (the award is given to a UNM graduate or undergraduate student for the best paper describing innovation or research in the field of biomedical informatics) Distinction and 5th rank in Nagpur University (out of 2000 examinees) in Bachelor of Engineering program Member of Editorial Board for Journal of Communications Engineering and Networks (JCEN) Guest Editor for Journal of Intelligent Learning Systems and Applications Program committee member of International Conference on Artificial Immune Systems (ICARIS) Reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Reviewer for SIMIODE (Systemic Initiative for Modeling Investigations and Opportunities with Differential Equations) |