Research Topics

Human Physiology and Chronic Diseases (McLeod, Lesperance)

• Diagnosis and prevention of age related physiologic adaptations
  • Alzheimer's disease
  • chronic pain
  • obesity
  • osteoporosis
  • Parkinson's disease
  • venous insufficiency

Computer-Supported Diagnosis and Prognosis (Land, Schaffer)

• Survival analysis
• Breast density as import feature in breast cancer diagnosis
• Stable bio markers for colorectal and colon cancer
• Classification and Diagnosis of colon, lung and melanoma cancer types
• Detecting early signs of neurodegenerative disease using speech processing

Evolution of Smart Machines based on Spiking Neural Networks (Schaffer, Laramee)

• Autonomous robotics
• Smart prosthetics
• Modeling living neural systems

Computational Biology (Beaumont, Laramee)

• Multiscale modeling of impulse propagation in excitable tissue
• Geometric modeling of physiological structures
• Interaction of electromagnetic waves with tissue

Bioelectromagnetics (Laramee, McLeod, Beaumont)

• Examining responses of living systems to static magnetic field exposures
• Static magnetic field (SMF) effects on mammalian gene expression
• SMF induced heat shock response
• SMF changes in viability of colorectal adenocarcinoma (caco-2) cells

Human and Social Dynamics (Sayama, Laramee)

• Evolutionary perspective on collective decision making
• Virtual Binghamton: Producing knowledge through community engagement
• Modeling adoption and diffusion of innovation over space and time

Complex Systems and Artificial Life (Sayama)

• Modeling and predicting state-topology coevolution of complex adaptive networks
• Collective behavior of heterogeneous swarms and its application to "Morphogenetic Engineering"

Interactive Evolutionary Computation (Sayama)

• Hyperinteractive evolutionary computation
• Network-informed brain-storming support systems

Transportation Systems (McLeod)

• Development of high speed ground transportation systems

Education (McLeod, Laramee, Sayama)

• Teaching social complexity and multidisciplinary team building: An experimental engineering approach
• Alternatives to the passive learning modalities utilized in K-16 education
• NetSci High: International high school student poster competition on network science
• Online demonstrations of complex systems simulation
• PyCX Project: Complex systems simulation made simple in Python