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