Research

My recent research can be described over both the methodology domain and the application domain. The methodologies I currently apply and to which I have contributed in the past include cognitive agents, agent based systems, cellular automata, lattice gas cellular automata, and computational intelligence. The areas to which I have applied the above methodologies include both natural and engineered systems such as, for instance, cognitive agents modeling autonomous robots, data communication networks, highway traffic, spread of epidemics, pattern formation in chemically reacting systems and homoepitaxial growth. I have published numerous papers in the areas of my research.

The research that I conduct is multidisciplinary in nature. It provides my graduate students and younger collaborators an opportunity to apply and develop a variety of technical skills in computational sciences (applied mathematics, statistics, computer science). It requires model development, simulation, visualization and analysis of data via a variety of statistical techniques. My most recent research is in cognitive agents able to learn from their environment and from other agents.