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From The Circuits and Biology Lab at UMN

A collaborative web page for Marc Riedel and his group in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Minnesota.

Announcements

• We are recruiting: M.S. students, Ph.D. students and Post-docs. In particular, we are seeking people with a background in biology and computation.
• Our research in logic synthesis for nanoscale digital circuits has been funded by the SRC Focus Center Research Program on Functional Engineered Nano-Architectonics.
• We have partnered with the High-Performance Life Sciences Applications Team in the IBM Systems and Technology Group. IBM has given us computing time on the Blue Gene supercomputer.
• Marc is teaching a new course in the Winter semester, titled Circuits, Computation and Biology.

About the Lab

The research activities encompass topics in logic synthesis and verification, as well as in synthetic and computational biology. A broad theme is the application of expertise from the realm of circuit design to the analysis and synthesis of biological systems.

Current projects include:

• The synthesis of probabilistic biochemical reactions.
• Algorithmic techniques for stochastic simulation.
• Stochastic logic for nanoscale digital circuits.
• Digital circuits with noisy/probabilistic gates.
• Combinational circuits with feedback.

Please see our research page for more information.