Dr. Bolouri began his career studying microelectronic design of massively parallel processor systems for Artificial Intelligence applications. He earned his Ph.D. in Microelectronic Systems Design in 1990 from Brunel University in the U.K. During this same timeframe, he led the design of parallel processing realizations of Artificial Neural Networks for pattern recognition applications, including a programmable PC-extension card, and a palm-sized Multi Chip Module for real-time hand-writing recognition. While studying artificial evolutionary and developmental algorithms, he became increasingly convinced that biological systems need to be studied much more closely to learn how information is processed at the level of molecular interactions, and how these systems have evolved.

As the newest member of the faculty, Dr. Hamid Bolouri came to the Institute for Systems Biology with a background that applied computational principles to systems-level study in molecular and cell biology. Before joining the ISB, Bolouri evenly divided his time between leading teams at the Science and Technology Research Centre at the University of Hertfordshire in the UK, and the divisions of Biology and Control and Dynamical Systems at Caltech, where his team developed: novel software for qualitative modeling, gene discovery using nylon macroarrays, and regulatory-sequence analysis; the Systems Biology Workbench—a modular, broker-based, message-passing framework for simplified application integration and resource-sharing; the Systems Biology Markup Language, or SBML.

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