SURF 2011

This page is intended for students working on SURF projects in the Summer of 2011. Mainly for meet to keep track of everything that is going on.

Student	Mini-group	Co-mentor(s)	Project	Comments
Chandrasekhar, Arjun	Biocircuits	(Emzo)	Simulac
Chinchali, Sandeep	Robotics	Scott	LTL grasping
Håkansson, Magnus	Robotics	Andrea	Bootstrapping
Khetarpal, Ishan	Biocircuits	Jongmin	Event detector
Lin, Yuchen	NCS	Necmiye, Scott	TuLiP user interface
Nguyen, Paul	Biocircuits	Joe	sRNA delay circuits
Nilsson, Peter	NCS	Necmiye, Ufuk	TuLiP abstraction algorithms
Sapatnekar, Keshav	Biocircuits	Emzo	Scaffold protein sensor
Tsuei, Stephanie	Robotics	Necmiye	Distributed camera network
Zemlianova, Klavdia	Robotics	(Sawyer)	Multi-modal insect flight control	20 Jun start

• iGEM: Brown, Julia; Cheng, Puikei; Shelton, Amanda; Thadani, Nicole
• Solar Decathlon: Jones, Sam; Lu, David; Suen, Ka

Original project descriptions

This section contains a list of project areas where I will be supervising projects this year. (OBSOLETE:) Students interested in writing proposals for SURF projects should contact me via e-mail to discuss what areas they are interested in and talk through possible SURF proposal topics. All applications should go through the normal SURF application process, described at www.surf.caltech.edu.

Title	Grant/Project	Co-Mentors	Comments
Synthetic biology in a cell-free expression system	MPP	Jongmin Kim
Design of Biomolecular Circuits Using Programmable Protein Scaffolds	ICB	Emzo de los Santos
Effects of Topology on DNA Transcription	ICB	Joseph T. Meyerowitz
Receding Horizon Temporal Logic Planning Toolbox	MuSyC	Ufuk Topcu
Implementation of Control Protocols for Camera Networks	MuSyC	Necmiye Ozay