Pramod Mathai

Pramod Mathai is a CNST/UMD Postdoctoral Researcher in the CNST Nanofabrication Research Group. He completed his B. Tech. in Aerospace Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai, India, and his Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering at the University of Maryland, College Park. He is interested in applying control and information theory to manipulate nanoscale and biological systems. His dissertation focused on understanding how reduced order models of sub-systems can be interconnected to reproduce whole system behavior in physical systems (heat conduction in electronic devices) and chemical systems (protein focusing in capillaries). He has also investigated inferring gene transcription networks using information theory, and fabricated devices for performing polymerase chain reactions (PCR) on silicon substrates. He is currently working with J. Alexander Liddle and Ben Shapiro to control electro-osmotic flow in a PDMS-based device with the goal of trapping or steering 500 nm and smaller particles accurately along any desired trajectory.

• Interconnection of Subsystem Reduced-Order Models in the Electrothermal Analysis of Large Systems, P. Mathai and B. Shapiro, IEEE Transactions on Components and Packaging Technologies 30, 317-329 (2007).
• On the Detection of Gene Network Interconnections using Directed Mutual Information, P. Mathai, N.C. Martins, and B. Shapiro. Proceedings of Information theory and Applications (ITA) 29 Jan - 2 Feb 2007, San Diego, California, 274-283 (2007).