Research Interests:

Nonlinear dynamics, condensed matter physics, physics of computation, evolutionary dynamics, pattern discovery, dynamics of learning, and distributed robotics.

Research Areas

• Complexity Sciences

Career History

• Ph.D., University of California, Santa Cruz, 1983
• Postdoc Research Fellow, University of California, Berkeley, 1983-1986
• Visiting Staff Member, Los Alamos National Laboratory, 1982-1994
• External Associate Professor, Santa Fe Institute, 1990-1997
• Research Physicist, University of California, Berkeley, 1987-1997
• Research Professor, Santa Fe Institute, 1997-2004
• Professor, University of California, Davis, 2004-Present

Honors

• Resident Scholar, Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Conference Center, Bellagio, Italy, 1999
• Bernard Osher Foundation Fellow, San Francisco Exploratorium, 1995
• Distinguished Visiting Research Professor, Beckman Institute, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, 1991
• Post-Doctoral Fellowships: IBM Thomas J. Watson and Miller Institute for Basic Research in Science, Physics Department, University of California, Berkeley, 1991
• University of California Regents Graduate Fellowships, 1980