Complex Dynamical Systems Laboratory (CDSL)

• February 2025: 📗 CDSL research on "The role of sensory cues in collective dynamics: a study of three-dimensional Vicsek models" is accepted for publication in the journal Applied Sciences. Read more: link 

Congratulations to Raju for his first-author journal publication! 🥂

• December 2024: 👨‍🏫 Dr. Roy participated in the alumni networking event titled "From Shibpur to Academia: Paths to U.S. Universities and Faculty Roles".

Check out the presentation: link

• October 2024: 👨‍🏫 Raju is presenting CDSL research at the Modeling, Estimation and Control Conference (MECC 2024)​! 

• October 2024: 🎤 Dr. Roy gives an invited seminar talk at Northern Illinois University. Thank you for the opportunity!

• October 2024: Raju successfully defends his Master’s thesis! Congratulations to Raju! 🥂 

Raju will continue his research in our lab as he works toward his PhD, supported by the NSF CAREER award.

• June 2024: Dr. Roy is attending the 2024 ASEE Annual Conference.

• June 2024: 👨‍🏫 Dr. Roy is presenting research at the SIAM Conference on the Life Sciences (LS24). 

• April 2024: 📗 CDSL research on "Validating a data-driven framework for vehicular traffic modeling" is accepted for publication in Journal of Physics: Complexity. Read more: link 

• April 2024: Congratulations to Raju on his outstanding achievement of winning the International Engagement Award! 🥂

• Jan 2024: Congratulations to Raju on being accepted into the PhD program! 🥂 Raju will continue in our lab, pursuing his PhD studies with support from the NSF CAREER grant.

• October 2023: 👨‍🏫 We are presenting CDSL research at the Modeling, Estimation and Control Conference (MECC 2023)​! 

• May 2023: 🏆 Dr. Roy wins the NSF CAREER award. Check out the NSF abstract: link and the ERAU NEWS: link

• May 2023: 👨‍🏫 We are presenting CDSL research at the SIAM DS23 conference. 

• March 2023: Congratulations to Ian on being selected for the MIT Lincoln Laboratory's systems engineering summer research program! Very well deserved!! 🥂

• October 2022: 🎤 Dr. Roy gives an invited talk at the Center for Complex Systems and Dynamics at the Indian Institute Of Technology Madras. Thank you for the opportunity!

Check out the presentation: link

• August 2022: 🥼 CDSL welcomes Poorendra Ramlall (Raju) to the research team. Raju will conduct his Master's research on 'agent-based modeling of collective behavior'. 

• July 2022: 🎤 Dr. Roy gives an invited talk at the NSF-funded workshop on Integrative Organismal Modeling of Movement, hosted by UC Irvine’s Center for Integrative Movement Sciences. Thank you for the opportunity! 

Check out the presentation: link

• May 2022: 🏆 Dr. Roy receives the 2022-23 Faculty Innovative Research in Science and Technology (FIRST) Program Award ($26,000) to study "spatiotemporal dependencies of traffic characteristics using causal discovery algorithms."

• October 2021: 📗 CDSL research on "How does the fusion of sensory information from audition and vision impact collective behavior?" is accepted for publication in Frontiers in Applied Mathematics and Statistics. Read more: link

Congratulations to Jeremy Lemus! 🥂

• September 2021: 📗 CDSL research on "A general metric for the similarity of both stochastic and deterministic system dynamics" is accepted for publication in Entropy. Read more: link 

Congratulations to Dr. Benjamin Jantzen and Colin Shea-Blymyer! 🥂

• August 2021: 📣 CDSL has moved to ERAU and has a new logo matching the color of the ERAU logo - Royal Blue and Gold. 

• August 2021: 🏫 Dr. Roy is very excited to start as a tenure-track assistant professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department at the Embry–Riddle Aeronautical University (ERAU) in Fall 2021. 

• May 2021: 📰 Dr. Roy's minisymposium presentation at the 2021 SIAM Conference on Applications of Dynamical Systems is featured on the SIAM News. Read more: link

• May 2021: 🤝 Dr. Roy is co-organizing with Dr. Sachit Butail a mini-symposium on "Data-Driven Approach to Modeling and Analysis of Real-World Dynamical Systems" (MS91) during the SIAM Conference on Applications of Dynamical Systems (DS21). Read more: link

• April 2021: 🏆 Dr. Roy receives the 2021-22 CSUN Research Scholarship and Creative Activity (RSCA) Award ($5000 mini-grant) to study "The role of multisensory integration on the emergent behavior in multi-agent systems."

• April 2021: 👨‍🏫 Douglas is presenting CDSL research at the CSUNposium

• March 2021: 📰 Dr. Roy's research is featured on the CSUN Today news - Top Stories.  Read more: link

• March 2021: 👨‍🏫 Dr. Roy presents Virtual Career Talk at the Virginia Tech Graduate Engineering Mechanics Society (GEMS) outreach event. It is a pleasure to meet all the fellow Hokies!

• January 2021: 🏆 Dr. Roy receives the Future Technology Leader Award from the Engineers' Council.

• November 2020: 📗 Dr. Roy's research on "Quantifying interactions among car drivers using information theory" is accepted for publication in Chaos.  Read more: link

• October 2020: 👨‍🏫 Dr. Roy is presenting research at the 2020 ASME Dynamic Systems and Control Conference

• September 2020: 🎤 Dr. Roy gives an invited talk at the "Exemplars in Engineering Research" organized by the Department of Research, California State University, Office of the Chancellor. Thank you for the opportunity! 

Check out the presentation: link

• June 2020: 🏆 Congratulations to Douglas for winning the 2020-21 Gene Haas Scholarship!

• February 2020: 🥼 CDSL welcomes Jeremy Lemus to the research team.

• February 2020: 🥼 CDSL welcomes Douglas Hull to the research team. 

• January 2020: 📗 CDSL research on "Effect of visual and auditory sensing cues on collective behavior in Vicsek models" is accepted for publication in Physical Review E.  Read more: link

• January 2020: 🧪 Complex Dynamical Systems Laboratory ​(CDSL) is now live! 

• August 2019: 🏫 Dr. Roy joins the Mechanical Engineering Department at California State University, Northridge (CSUN) as a tenure-track assistant professor.