Radhia Nagpal’s research draws on inspiration from social insects and multicellular biology, with the goal of creating globally robust systems made up of many cooperative parts.
Computer scientist applies inspirations from biological multi-agent systems to computer and robotic systems. Harvard President Drew Faust has approved Radhika Nagpal for promotion to the role of full professor with tenure at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS). Nagpal, the Thomas D. Cabot Associate Professor of Computer Science at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and a Core Faculty Member at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard, heads the Self-Organizing Systems Research Group in the study of collective behavior in biological systems and how such behaviors can by applied to computing and robotics. Her research draws on inspiration from social insects and multicellular biology, with the goal of creating globally robust systems made up of many cooperative parts. Nagpal also investigates complex biological systems through mathematical and computational models. Discoveries in these areas have application in computer networking, robot swarms, and sensor networks. A recent result of study by her Self-Organizing Systems Research Group was the Kilobot, tiny, inexpensive robots designed as a tool for understanding complex, distributed systems.
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