Mahmut Selman Sakar

   Ph.D. Student

   The Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering

   University of Pennsylvania

   Grasp Lab

Contact Information

Address:	Levine Hall L558 University of Pennsylvania 3330 Walnut Street Philadelphia, PA 19104-6228 USA
Phone:	267-231-1973
Email:	sakarmah(at)grasp(dot)upenn(dot)edu
Web:	http://www.seas.upenn.edu/~sakarmah

Systems Biology Group

Research Interests

application of control theory and dynamical systems in physiology and molecular biology, stochastic models in molecular systems biology, bacterial actuation systems, bio-inspired controllers for swarms of robots.

Education

Sept. 2005 – Current	PhD Student, University of Pennsylvania Advisor: Prof. George J. Pappas
Sept. 2005 – May. 2007	MS in Electrical Engineering (with distinction), University of Pennsylvania Advisor: Prof. George J. Pappas GPA: 4.0/4.0
Sept. 2001 – June 2005	BS in Electrical and Electronics Engineering (high honors), Bogazici University, Turkey Senior Thesis: Modeling and Control of Rotary Inverted Pendulum Thesis Advisor: Prof. Kemal Ciliz

Teaching

Fall 2006: TA for ENM 503 - Introduction to Probability

Fall 2004: TA for EE 353 - Control Systems and Design

Publications

Journal Publication

1. A.A. Julius, A. Halasz, M.S. Sakar, H. Rubin, V. Kumar, G.J. Pappas, Controlling biological systems: the lactose regulation system of Escherichia coli, submitted to the IEEE Trans. Automatic Control  and IEEE Trans. Circuit and Systems joint special issue on Systems Biology, 2007.

Conference Proceedings

1. A.A. Julius, M.S. Sakar, A. Bemporad, G.J. Pappas, "Hybrid model predictive control of induction of Escherichia coli", accepted to the 45th IEEE Conf. Decision and Control 2007, New Orleans, USA.

Conference Poster and Abstract

1. M.S. Sakar, E. Steager, A.A. Julius, V. Kumar, M.J. Kim, G.J. Pappas, "Microfabricated structures powered by flagellated bacteria", submitted to the 8th International Conference on Systems Biology, Long Beach, USA, 2007.

Last update July 29, 2007