Dr. Johnrob Y. Bantang

ADMINISTRATIVE AND ACADEMIC POSITIONS

• Associate Professor of Physics, National Institute of Physics (NIP)

• Deputy Director for Facility, Center for Intelligent Systems, University of the Philippines System | Lead, UP Data Commons and Facilities

• Former Director, Computational Science Research Center, College of Science, University of the Philippines Diliman

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Complex systems: granular matter mixing, segregation, and heap stability; cellular automata model of dynamical systems, chaotic systems, complex networks and social dynamics; ordinary differential equation model of virus-cell interaction; Membrane system simulation using Brane calculus formalism; Optics and imaging: focused light propagation and imaging through turbid media

PUBLICATIONS

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International scientific publication in refereed journals 

1. HA Ariola, JY Bantang and JR Bantang. A Study on Price Sensitivity to a Product and its Attributes of Selected Filipino Consumers. Journal of Asian Regional Association for Home Economics 31:1, p2 (Feb 2024) 

2. RXA Ramos, JC Dominguez, and JY Bantang. Young and Aged Neuronal Tissue Dynamics With a Simplified Neuronal Patch Cellular Automata Model. Frontiers of Neuroinformatics 15:763560 (January 2022) doi: 10.3389/fninf.2021.763560 

3. JLO Almerol, JY Bantang, and MP Liponhay. Mixing and segregation of freely-falling granular materials through a vertical pipe. Granular Matter 23, 18 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10035-020-01061-7 

4. AA Paguirigan Jr, MJG Angco, and JY Bantang. A fragmentation model of earthquake-like behavior in internet access activity.  Int. J. Mod. Phys. C 28:1750092(July 2017) doi:10.1142/S0129183117500929 

5. JCS Pang and JY Bantang. Hodgkin-Huxley neurons with defective and blocked ion channels. Int. J. Mod. Phys. C 26(10):1550112(January 2015) doi:10.1142/S012918311550112 

6. JCS Pang, CP Monterola, JY Bantang. Noise-induced synchronization in a lattice Hodgkin-Huxley neural network. Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, Vol. 393:638-645(1 January 2014) doi: 10.1016/j.physa.2013.08.069 

7. JCS Pang, JY Bantang, CP Monterola. Effect of random link malfunctions to synchronization of Hodgkin-Huxley neurons in a lattice network. Int. J. Mod. Phys. C: Computational Physics and Physical Computation, Vol. 23(3):1250027(2012) doi: 10.1142/S0129183112500271 

8. MP Dobay, A Dobay, J Bantang, and E Mendoza How many trimers? Modeling influenza virus fusion yields a minimum aggregate size of six trimers, three of which are fusogenic Molec. Biosysterns 2011 (08 July 2011) doi: 10.1039/C1MB05060E 

9. MG Pastor and JY Bantang Transport efficiency of passive diffusion of viral cargos in biological cells, International J. Mod. Phys. C, Vol. 22(4):347-357 (2011) doi: 10.1142/S0129183111016294 

10. R. Batac, M. Pastor, M. Arciaga, J. Bantang, and C. Monterola, Kinks, Logarithmic Tails, and Super-stability in Bi-disperse Granular Media, Physica A, Vol. 388, pp. 3072-3082 (2009) 

11. M Arciaga, M Pastor, R Batac, J Bantang and C Monterola Experimental observation and an empirical model of enhanced heap stability resulting from the mixing of granular materials. J. Stat. Mech. (2009) P07040 (doi: 10.1088/1742-5468/2009/07/ P07040) 

12. J Bantang and C Saloma Co-existence of Poisson and non-Poisson processes in ordered parallel multilane pedestrian traffic. Complexity 11(6): 35-42 (2006) 

13. J Bantang, M Lim, C Monterola, and C Saloma Gravity-assisted segregation of granular materials of equal mass and size. Physical Review E 66(4): 041306 (Oct 2002) 

14. KM Romallosa, J Bantang, and C Saloma Three-dimensional light distribution near the focus of a tightly focused beams of  few-cycle optical pulses. Physical Review A 68(3): 033812 (2003) 

BOOK CHAPTERS

15. MP David, J Bantang and E Mendoza. A projective Brane calculus with Activate, Bud and Mate as primitive Actions in LNBI Transactions on Computational Systems Biology XI Corrado Priami, Ed. LNCS vol 5750 (Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2009) pp 164-186, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-04186-0_8 

16. J Bantang and C Saloma. Suppression of chaos in coupled chaotic logistic models in New Research in Nonlinear Phenomena, F Columbus, Ed. (Nova Science Publishers, New York)