TSSG invited to present at NSF workshop on Molecular Communication, Biological Communications Technology

On Wednesday and Thursday, February 20-21, the TSSG was invited to the National Science Foundation (NSF) Workshop on Molecular Communication, Biological Communications Technology, held at Hilton Arlington, VA, USA. The workshop was organised by Prof. Tatsuya Suda and Dr. Tadashi Nakano, from the University of California, Irvine. The purpose of the workshop was to discuss possible new inter-disciplinary research areas and provide suggestions to the NSF on new funding programs for the future. The 37 participants of the workshop were organised into 5 main sessions (Design and Engineering of Systems Components, System Design Methodology, Coding Theory and Channel Capacity, Novel Computing Paradigms, and Potential Applications), to discuss grand research challenges that will be submitted to the NSF. The workshop was attended by 13 NSF program directors who participated in each session and consulted with the participants on their research work.
The work presented by the TSSG at the workshop was the research currently conducted from the Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) project “Autonomic Management of Communication Network and Services”, where the work presented was on Bio-inspired Autonomic Networks. In addition, the TSSG also presented the work on Biological Cell Computation supporting protocols for Nano/MEMS communications. For more information on the workshop, please click
here. The list of presenters and their presentations can also be found here.