Synthetic Biology | RTX
My blog, Jake Beal's Next Step , is where I post general thinking about my research, plus updates regarding publications and talks.
I am an Engineering Fellow at Raytheon BBN Technologies . I am also a research affiliate of the University of Iowa . Previously, I was also a research affiliate of MIT , where I did my graduate and postdoctoral work.
The uniting theme of my research is "engineered self-organization," which is the production of predictable aggregate behavior from locally interacting elements. At present, my investigations are mainly in the domains of synthetic biology (the predictive engineering of desired behaviors in living cells), and aggregate and spatial computing (the description and control of systems of many weakly connected computing devices, and an extension of amorphous computing ). Previous research subjects have included wor
Synthetic Biology | RTX