Debojyoti Biswas

Postdoctoral Fellow

LIMBS Lab
Laboratory for Computational Sensing and Robotics

E-mail: [email protected]

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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

  • [DOI] D. Biswas, E. D. Sontag, and N. J. Cowan, “An exact active sensing strategy for a class of bio-inspired systems,” Euro J Control, p. 101285, 2025.
    [Bibtex] 
    @article{biswasexact2025a,
title = {An exact active sensing strategy for a class of bio-inspired systems},
author = {Biswas, Debojyoti and Sontag, Eduardo D. and Cowan, Noah J.},
journal = {Euro J Control},
pages = {101285},
year = {2025},
doi = {10.1016/j.ejcon.2025.101285},
url = {https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0947358025001141},
note = {In press}
}
  • [PDF] [DOI] 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 = {Biswas, Debojyoti and Lamperski, Andrew and Yang, Yu and Hoffman, Kathleen and Guckenheimer, John and Fortune, Eric S. and Cowan, Noah J.},
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}
}
  • [PDF] [DOI] D. Biswas, L. A. Arend, S. A. 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 = {Biswas, Debojyoti and Arend, Luke A. and Stamper, Sarah A. and V\'{a}gv\"{o}lgyi, Bal\'{a}zs P. and Fortune, Eric S. and Cowan, Noah J.},
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}
}
  • D. Biswas, E. D. Sontag, and N. J. Cowan, “An exact active sensing strategy for a class of bio-inspired systems,” in Proc Euro Control Conf, 2025.
    [Bibtex] 
    @inproceedings{biswasexact2025,
author = {Biswas, Debojyoti and Sontag, Eduardo D. and Cowan, Noah J.},
booktitle = {Proc Euro Control Conf},
title = {An exact active sensing strategy for a class of bio-inspired systems},
note = {Accepted},
year = 2025
}

Preprints

Computational Cell Biology/Chemotaxis