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                                  Radhika Nagpal
                                         Harvard University
                          33 Oxford Street, room 235, Cambridge MA 02138
                          Email: rad@eecs.harvard.edu, Phone: (617)496-6434
                                http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~rad


RESEARCH INTERESTS

Engineering and understanding self-organizing systems. Bio-inspired algorithms for multi-agent and dis-
tributed systems; Applications to swarm/modular robotics and sensor networks; Global-to-local compilation
and theory; Computational models of multicellular biological systems.


EDUCATION

Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, June 2001
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA
Thesis: Programmable Self-Assembly using Biologically-Inspired Local Interactions
Advisors: Prof. Gerald J. Sussman, Prof. Harold Abelson

S.M. and S.B. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, June 1994
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA
Thesis: Implementing Single-cycle Store Instructions in Pipelined Microprocessors
Advisors: Dr Rae McLellan (Bell Labs), Prof. Anant Agarwal (MIT)


PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS

 Sept 2004-   Assistant Professor of Computer Science
              Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University.
 2003-2004    Research Fellow,
              Department of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School.
 2001-2003    Postdoctoral Lecturer,
              Department of EECS, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
 1994-1995    Member of Technical Staff,
              Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ.
 other        Research Internships
              MIT Media Lab (1990), Bell Labs (1992-94), Hewlett-Packard Labs (1997)


AWARDS


   · NSF Career Grant, June 2007.
   · Microsoft New Faculty Fellowship Award, May 2005.
   · Bell Labs Graduate Research Fellowship Award for Women (GRPW), 1995-2001.
   · National Talent Search Scholarship Award, India, 1987.
TEACHING


Harvard CS 266 Biologically-inspired Distributed and Multi-agent Systems Fall 2004,06,07.
    Graduate Course, Lecturer, developed new course.

Harvard CS 51 Introduction to Computer Science II Spring 2005,06,07.
    Undergraduate Course, Advanced programming models.

Harvard SB 301 Special Topics in Systems Biology Fall 2005.
    Graduate Course, Co-lecturer with other biology faculty.

Harvard-MIT RoboCup Soccer Team 2005-present.
    Faculty advisor, Harvard College Undergraduate Engineering Society (HCES).

Harvard iGEM Intercollegiate Genetically-Engineered Machines Competition Summer 2005, 2006.
    Faculty advisor, Summer course and competition in synthetic biology.

MIT 6.042 Mathematics for Computer Scientists Fall 2001, Spring/Fall 2002.
   Undergraduate Course, Co-lecturer with Prof. A. Meyer, redesigned course in interactive lecture style.

MIT 6.978 Biologically-motivated Programming Technology for Robust Systems Fall 2002.
   Graduate Course, Co-lecturer with Prof. H. Abelson and Prof. G. Sussman.

MIT 6.033 Computer Systems Spring 2003.
   Undergraduate Course, Recitation Instructor

Outreach IBM Cambridge E.X.I.T.E. Program for Middle School Girls (2006), NCWIT (National Coalition
    for Women in IT) 2005, WICS (Harvard Women in CS).



GRANTS


NSF Career Grant Self-organizing Systems: Engineering and Understanding Robust Collective Behavior,
    June 2007-12, $400,000.

NSF EMT Grant Programmable Myriads: Self-assembling Cellular Robots Inspired by Tissue Morpho-
    genesis, Radhika Nagpal (PI), Prof. Donald Ingber (co-PI, Harvard Medical School), NSF Emerging
    Models and Technologies for Computation Program (EMT), Sept 2005-08, $500,000.

Microsoft New Faculty Fellowship Award May 2005, $200,000.

Harvard Clark Grant Collective Construction by Groups of Mobile Robots, Feb 2006, $5,500.

NSF QuBIC Grant Robust Engineering Using Biologically-Inspired Models of Cell Differentiation and
    Morphogenesis, Radhika Nagpal (postdoc at MIT), Gerald J. Sussman (PI), NSF Grant on Quantum
    and Biologically-Inspired Computing (QuBIC), Sept 2001-05, $500,000.
PUBLICATIONS

Journals (refereed)

  · Matthew Gibson, Ankit Patel, Norbert Perrimon, Radhika Nagpal, The Emergence of Geometric Order
    in Proliferating Metazoan Epithelia, Nature, Aug 31, 2006.
  · Justin Werfel, Radhika Nagpal, Extended Stigmergy in Collective Construction, IEEE Intelligent Sys-
    tems, Volume 21, Number 2, April 2006.
  · Jonathan Bachrach, Radhika Nagpal, Micheal Salib, Howard Shrobe, Experimental Results and Theo-
    retical Analysis of a Self-Organizing Global Coordinate System for Ad Hoc Sensor Networks, Telecom-
    munications Systems Journal, Special Issue on Wireless System Networks, 2003.
  · Harold Abelson, Don Allen, Daniel Coore, Chris Hanson, George Homsy, Thomas Knight, Radhika
    Nagpal, Erik Rauch, Gerald Sussman, and Ron Weiss, Amorphous Computing, Communications of the
    ACM, Volume 43, Number 5, May 2000.

Conference Proceedings (refereed)

  · Chih-han Yu, FX Williems, Donald Ingber, Radhika Nagpal, Self-organizing Environmentally-adaptive
    Shapes on a Modular Robot, IEEE Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Oct, 2007.
  · Justin Werfel, Donald Ingber, Radhika Nagpal, Collective Construction of Environmentally-adaptive
    Structures IEEE Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Oct, 2007.
  · Ankit Patel, Julius Degesys, Radhika Nagpal,Desynchronization: The Theory of Self-Organizing Algo-
    rithms for Round-Robin Scheduling, IEEE Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems
    (SASO), July 2007,
  · Julius Degesys, Ian Rose, Ankit Patel, Radhika Nagpal, DESYNC: Self-Organizing Desynchroniza-
    tion and TDMA on Wireless Sensor Networks Intl. Conference on Information Processing in Sensor
    Networks (IPSN), April 2007.
  · Justin Werfel, Yaneer Bar-Yam, Daniela Rus, Radhika Nagpal, Distributed Construction by Mobile
    Robots with Enhanced Building Blocks, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation
    (ICRA), May 2006.
  · Geoff Werner-Allen, Geetika Tewari, Ankit Patel, Matt Welsh, Radhika Nagpal, Firefly-Inspired Sensor
    Network Synchronicity with Realistic Radio Effects, ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor
    Systems (SENSYS), November 2005.
  · Justin Werfel, Yaneer Bar-Yam, Radhika Nagpal, Building Patterned Structures with Robot Swarms,
    International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), August 2005.
  · Jimming Cheng, Winston Cheng, Radhika Nagpal, Robust and Self-repairing Formation Control For
    Swarms Of Mobile Agents, National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), July 2005.
  · Kasper Stoy, Radhika Nagpal, Self-repair and Scale-independent Self-reconfiguration (for Modular
    Robots), IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) Sept 2004.
  · Kasper Stoy, Radhika Nagpal, Self-reconfiguration Using Directed Growth (for Modular Robots), Inter-
    national Symposium on Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems (DARs), June 2004.
  · Radhika Nagpal, Howard Shrobe, Jonathan Bachrach, Organizing a Global Coordinate System from
    Local Information on an Ad Hoc Sensor Network, International Conference on Information Processing
    in Sensor Networks (IPSN), April 2003.
   · Radhika Nagpal, Programmable Self-Assembly Using Biologically-Inspired Multiagent Control, Interna-
     tional Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS), July 2002.

   · Radhika Nagpal, Programmable Pattern-Formation and Scale-Independence, International Conference
     on Complex Systems (ICCS), June 2002.

   · Radhika Nagpal, Self-Assembling Global Shape, using Ideas from Biology and Origami, International
     Meeting of Origami Science, Mathematics and Technology (3OSME), March 2001. Reprinted in
     Origami3, A.K. Peters, ed. Thomas Hull, 2002.

   · Radhika Nagpal, Daniel Coore, An Algorithm for Group Formation in an Amorphous Computer, In-
     ternational Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing Systems (PDCS), Oct 1998.

Invited Articles

   · Radhika Nagpal, Self-Organizing Shape and Pattern: From Cells to Robots, IEEE Intelligent Systems
     21(2), April 2006.

   · Radhika Nagpal, Towards a Catalog of Biologically-inspired Primitives, Workshop on Engineering Self-
     organising Applications, Autonomous Agents and Multiagents Systems Conference (AAMAS), 2003,
     LNAI 2977.

   · Radhika Nagpal, Marco Mamei, Engineering Amorphous Computing Systems, book chapter in Method-
     ologies and Software Engineering for Agent Systems, editors Bergenti, Gleizes, Zambonelli, Kluwer
     Academic Publishing, 2003.

Refereed Workshops and Technical Reports

   · Justin Werfel, Radhika Nagpal, Towards a Common Comparison Framework for Global-to-Local Pro-
     gramming of Self-assembling Robotic Systems, Workshop on Self-reconfigurable Robot Systems and
     Applications, IROS, Oct, 2007.

   · Justin Werfel, Radhika Nagpal, Three-dimensional Directed Construction, Workshop on Reconfigurable
     Robots, Robotics Science and Systems (RSS), Aug 2006.

   · Crystal Schuil, Matthew Valente, Justin Werfel, Radhika Nagpal, Collective Construction Using Lego
     Robots, Robot Exhibition, National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), July 2006.

   · Radhika Nagpal, Attila Kondacs, Catherine Chang, Programming Methodology for Biologically-Inspired
     Self-Assembling Systems, AAAI Spring Symposium, March 2003.

   · Lauren Clement, Radhika Nagpal, Self-Assembly and Self-Repairing Topologies, Workshop on Adapt-
     ability in Multi-Agent Systems, RoboCup Australian Open, January 2003.

   · Ron Weiss, George Homsy, Radhika Nagpal, Programming Biological Cells, International Conference
     on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems, Wild & Crazy Ideas
     Session, October 1998.
   · Daniel Coore, Radhika Nagpal, Implementing Reaction Diffusion on an Amorphous Computer, MIT
     Student Workshop on High Performance Computing in Science and Engineering, MIT/LCS TR-737,
     1998.

   · Daniel Coore, Radhika Nagpal, Ron Weiss, Paradigms for Structure in an Amorphous Computer, MIT
     Artificial Intelligence Laboratory Memo 1614, Nov 1997.

   · Radhika Nagpal, Hemant Kanakia, Implementing Browsing Operations in MPEG, International Work-
     shop on Packet Video, March 1995.
   · Radhika Nagpal, Implementing Single-cycle Store Instructions in Write-through, Write-back and Set-
     associative Caches, AT&T Technical Memo, 1127-950117-01TM, 1994.
Dissertation

   · Radhika Nagpal, Programmable Self-Assembly: Constructing Global Shape Using Biologically-Inspired
     Local Interactions and Origami Mathematics, PhD Thesis, MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory Tech-
     nical Memo 2001-008, June 2001.



RESEARCH GROUP

Supervised Dissertation

     Justin Werfel, Anthills Built to Order: Automating Construction with Artificial Swarms,
     PhD Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, May 2006,
     Advisors: Prof. Radhika Nagpal (Harvard), Prof. Sebastian Seung (MIT).

Current Students
PhD candidates: Ankit Patel, Daniel Yamins, Julius Degesys, Ian Rose, Chih-han Yu
Undergraduates: Kristina Haller, Matthew Valente, Crystal Schuil


SELECTED INVITED TALKS


   · CS Colloquium: Univ. of Southern California (2007), GRASP Lab at Univ. of Pennsylvannia (2007),
     Cornell University (2005).
   · Fifth Americas School on Agents and Multiagent Systems, July 2006.
   · Colloquium, Bauer Center for Genomics, Harvard University, Jan 2006
   · Harvard Systems Biology Theory lunch, 2006, 2007
   · Colloquium, Broad Institute, MIT, April 2005.
   · International Meeting on Synthetic Biology, Cambridge, June 2004.
   · Colloquim, Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratory (MERL), 2002.



SELECTED ACTIVITIES


   · Tutorial: Global-to-Local Programming: Design and Analysis for Amorphous Computers, Nagpal,
     Yamins, IEEE Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems (SASO), July 2007.
   · University Committees: FAS Standing Committee on Women (2006-07), DEAS Committee on Teaching
     Practices (2005-06), Admissions Committee for Systems Biology Graduate Program (2005).
   · Organising committee: Workshop on Engineering Self-Organising Applications (ESOA 2004), at the
     International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agent and Multiagent Systems Conference; Workshop
     on Programming Myriads: Investigating Programming Abstractions and Language for Sensor Networks,
     Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University (June 2004).
· Program committee: Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS 2008, senior program
  committee) IEEE Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems (SASO 2007), IEEE Workshop on Self-
  managed Networks, Systems and Services (SelfMan 2006), Intl. Conference on Distributed Computing
  in Sensor Systems (DCoSS 2006), IEEE Real-time Systems Symposium (RTSS 2005), Workshop on
  Engineering Self-Organising Applications (ESOA 2003, 05).

· DARPA Study Member: ISAT study on "Engineering Ensembles" (2007), CA Futures Study (2007).

· Editorial Board: ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems.