Melanie Moses
Contact
Melaniem@cs.unm.edu
Phone: 505.277.9140
Fax: 505.277.6927
Physical Address
Room
3350
Farris Engineering Center
Building #
119 on the UNM map
Mailing Address
MSC01 1130
1 University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM 87131-1070
Professor
Department of Computer Science
Associate Professor
Department of Biology
Personal Website
Curriculum Vitae
Education
PhD, Biology, University of New Mexico, 2005
BS, Symbolic Systems, Stanford University, 1993
Biography
We live in a complex world. From the spread of disease in increasingly interconnected human populations to the impact of fossil-fueled economies on global climate, the greatest challenges in modern science and engineering require understanding complex systems, what makes them efficient and resilient, and why they fail. My lab studies complex biological systems including the adaptive immune system and ant colonies. I use this understanding to design efficient, robust, adaptive and scalable engineered systems, including autonomous robots that mimic ant behaviors to collect resources cooperatively.
Teaching Interests
- Complex Adaptive Systems
- Biological Modeling
- Biologically Inspired Computation
Research Interests
- Complex adaptive systems
- Computational immunology
- Biologically inspired computation
- Swarm robotics
