Current Lab Members
Prof. Enoch Yeung
is the director of the Biological Control Laboratory and an assistant professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department at UCSB. He is also a member of the Center for Biological Engineering, Biomolecular Science and Engineering Program, and the Center for Control, Dynamics, and Computation. His research interests lie at the interface of synthetic biology, control theory, and data science.
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Aqib Hasnain
is a 5th year PhD student in Mechanical Engineering. His research interests include machine learning, synthetic biology, dynamical systems, and control.
Shara Rhagha Wardhan Balakrishnan
is a 6th year PhD student in Electrical and Computer Engineering. His research interests lie at the intersection of synthetic biology, control systems, and system identification.
Jamiree Harrisson
is a 4th year PhD student in Mechanical Engineering. His research interests include mathematical modeling, machine learning, synthetic biology, dynamical systems, and control.
Charles Johnson
is a 3rd year PhD student in Mechanical Engineering. His research interests include dynamic systems, control theory, mathematical modeling and system identification.
Alec Taylor
is a 2nd year PhD student in the Mechanical Engineering program. His research interests are in synthetic biology, systems biology, protein engineering, and data science.
Lab Alumni
Alex Nguyen
Alex graduated in 2019 with a Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering. He is now pursuing a PhD in controls at UC Irvine. While in the Biological Control Lab, he researched new methods for synthesis of genetics circuits for nonlinear biological systems.
Andy Cai
graduated in 2018 with a Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering. He also was a junior research associate in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. His background was in design, fabrication, and all things mechanical engineering. He worked on optimization of genetic circuits for nutrient-sparse environments.
Jackson Bright
graduated in 2021 in with a Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering. His interests are in design and sustainability. While in the lab, he developed and optimized chemical assays for degradation of byproducts associated with plastic breakdown.
Nibodh Boddupalli
Nibodh graduated with a Master’s Degree student in Mechanical Engineering. He is currently pursuing a PhD with a focus in dynamics and controls in UCSB’s Mechanical Engineering department with Professor Jeff Moehlis. His research interests include theory and application of Koopman operator methods, system identification, design of experiments, and data-responsive machine learning models.
Dennis M Joshy
is a PhD student in Mechanical Engineering. His research interests include fluid mechanics, mechanobiology, and bioengineering. While in the Biological Control Lab, he studied how DNA integration in the genome affects neighboring gene transcription. He also developed a tool to design circuits from sketches of their dynamical behavior: Sketch-A-Net.