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[Nicole Bekerian]

The College of Computer and Information Science Presents:

Title: Electronic Design Automation to Bio Design Automation
Date: Monday July 11, 2011 at 10:00am
Location: 366 WVH

Abstract: Advances in electronic design automation (EDA) have been crucial in the development of complex electronic systems. The ability to independently specify, design, and assemble electronic systems at various abstraction levels has enabled tremendous growth in the semiconductor industry. In addition to growth, EDA has introduced ways to reduce design errors, increase performance, and deliver new products at an increased pace. As the field of synthetic biology grows, it is going to be vital to begin to look at introducing design methodologies that also enable specification, design, and physical assembly. This talk will introduce my vision for creating tools to address these issues which take techniques from EDA and apply them where appropriate to bio-design automation (BDA). In particular I will talk about two efforts, Clotho and Eugene, which have begun this process. Clotho is a software framework for the retrieval, storage, and manipulation of biological "parts". Eugene is a domain specific language for the specification and constraining of biological "devices". In addition to discussing these two efforts, I will briefly outline my ideas for the Center for Integrating Design Automation Research (CIDAR) and the collaborations which have begun with UC Berkeley, MIT, the BIOFAB, and BBN Technologies.

Bio:
Douglas Densmore received his Bachelors of Science in Engineering (Computer Engineering) from the University of Michigan in April 2001. He received his Masters of Science in Electrical Engineering in May 2004 and his PhD in Electrical Engineering in May 2007 (both from UC Berkeley).  After receiving his PhD he was a UC Chancellor’s post doctoral researcher both at UC Berkeley and the Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI). He was the team leader of UC Berkeley’s award winning software tools team for MIT’s International Genetically Engineered Machine Competition (iGEM) in 2008 and 2009.

His industry experience includes four+ summers with Intel Corporation and summer research positions at Cypress Semiconductor and Xilinx Research Labs. He is currently a member of the Gigascale Systems Research Center (GSRC), the Center for Hybrid and Embedded Software Systems (CHESS), and the Synthetic Biology Engineering Research Center (SynBERC).

He is now the Richard and Minda Reidy Family Career Development Assistant Professor at Boston University in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He is the leader of the Center for Integrating Design Automation Research (CIDAR) and a member of the Center for Advanced Biotechnology (CAB). His background and interests are in Computer Architecture, Embedded Systems, Logic Synthesis, Digital Logic Design, System Level Design, and Synthetic Biology.

Host: Guevara Noubir

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Nicole Bekerian 
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Northeastern University 
College of Computer and Information Science 
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