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I'm Rich Harang, a postdoctoral scholar in the Computational Science and Engineering Research Group at the University of California, Santa Barbara, under the direction of Dr. Linda Petzold, studying and modeling the behavior of stochastic oscillators in a circadian context. My dissertation -- "Wavelet Analysis of Stochastic Circadian Oscillators" -- was successfully defended on June 9 of 2010, and focused on using continuous wavelets to infer properties of oscillators driven by solutions to stochastic differential equations, and applying the results to bioluminescence data collected from the suprachiasmatic nuclues of rodents. My postdoctoral research focuses on further extending these results and refining the application of wavelets to classification and synchronization problems in individual circadian neurons. Just for fun, I'm also spending a little bit of time on using diffusion processes as transition functions in continuous time hidden Markov models. I love talking about my work, so if you've got questions, feel free to contact me. |
