Debojyoti Biswas

Postdoctoral Fellow

LIMBS Lab
Laboratory for Computational Sensing and Robotics

Education

Ph.D., Electrical and Computer Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, U.S.A.
Advisor: Prof. Pablo A. Iglesias,
Thesis: Stochastic Models of Chemotaxing Signaling Processes
M.S.E., Applied Mathematics and Statistics, specialization in Computational Mathematics, Johns Hopkins University, U.S.A.
M. Tech, Electrical Engineering, specialization in Control and Automation, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India
B.E, Electrical Engineering. Indian Institute of Engineering Science And Technology, Shibpur, India

Research Interest

Control theory, Neuroethology, Active Sensing, Computational Cell Biology, Chemotaxis

My current research focuses on unraveling the complex dynamics of sensorimotor interactions in animals, with a particular emphasis on the computational and neural underpinnings of active sensing behaviors.

Publications

Weakly Electric Fish/Active Sensing

Peer Reviewed

D. Biswas, A. Lamperski, Y. Yang, K. Hoffman, J. Guckenheimer, E. S. Fortune, and N. J. Cowan, “Mode switching in organisms for solving explore-versus-exploit problems,” Nat Mach Intell, vol. 5, iss. 11, p. 1285–1296, 2023.
[Bibtex]

@article{biswasmode2023,
author = {Debojyoti Biswas and Andrew Lamperski and Yu Yang and Kathleen Hoffman and John Guckenheimer and Eric S. Fortune and Noah J. Cowan},
title = {Mode switching in organisms for solving explore-versus-exploit problems},
year = {2023},
journal = {Nat Mach Intell},
volume = 5,
number = 11,
pages = {1285--1296},
doi = {10.1038/s42256-023-00745-y},
URL = {https://doi.org/10.1038/s42256-023-00745-y}
}

D. Biswas, L. A. Arend, S. Stamper, B. P. Vágvölgyi, E. S. Fortune, and N. J. Cowan, “Closed-Loop Control of Active Sensing Movements Regulates Sensory Slip,” Curr Biol, vol. 28, iss. 4, 2018.
[Bibtex]

@article{biswasclosed-loop2018,
title = {Closed-Loop Control of Active Sensing Movements
Regulates Sensory Slip},
author = {Debojyoti Biswas and Luke A. Arend and Sarah
A. Stamper and Bal\'{a}zs P. V\'{a}gv\"{o}lgyi and
Eric S. Fortune and Noah J. Cowan},
journal = {Curr Biol},
year = 2018,
volume = 28,
number = 4,
pmid = 30503617,
doi = {10.1016/j.cub.2018.11.002},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2018.11.002}
}

Preprints

D. Biswas, E. D. Sontag, N. J. Cowan, “An exact active sensing strategy for a class of bio-inspired systems,” arXiv preprint arXiv:2411.06612, 2024.
E. D. Sontag, D. Biswas, and N. J. Cowan, “An observability result related to active sensing,” arXiv preprint arXiv:2210.03848, 2022.

Computational Cell Biology/Chemotaxis

D. Biswas, P. Banerjee, P. A. Iglesias, “Balancing at the edge of excitability: Implications for cell movement,” Math Control Signals Syst, 36 (1), 121-137, 2024.
T. Banerjee, S. Matsuoka, D. Biswas, Y. Miao, D. S. Pal, Y. Kamimura, M. Ueda, P. N. Devreotes, P. A. Iglesias, “A dynamic partitioning mechanism polarizes membrane protein distribution,” Nat Commun, 14 (1), 7909, 2023.
D. Biswas, S. Bhattacharya, P. A. Iglesias, “Enhanced chemotaxis through spatially regulated absolute concentration robustness,” Int J Robust Nonlinear Control, 33 (9), 4923-4944, 2023.
T. Banerjee, D. Biswas, D. S. Pal, Y. Miao, P. A. Iglesias, P. N. Devreotes, “Spatiotemporal dynamics of membrane surface charge regulates cell polarity and migration,” Nat Cell Biol 24 (10), 1499-1515, 2022.
D. Biswas, P. N. Devreotes, P. A. Iglesias,”Three-dimensional stochastic simulation of chemoattractant-mediated excitability in cells,” PLoS Comput Biol 17 (7), e1008803, 2021.
X. Li, D. S. Pal, D. Biswas, P. A. Iglesias, P. N. Devreotes, “Reverse fountain flow of phosphatidylinositol‐3, 4‐bisphosphate polarizes migrating cells,” EMBO J, 40 (4), e105094, 2021.