Please see http://brown.edu/worldofbits
Here is a formal (pure academic puffery) Curriculum Vitae in PDF format and Chris' Wikipedia page (15 seconds of fame puffery). Here are links to short bios (formal and fun).
Dr. Christopher Rose received the S.B. (1979), S.M. (1981) and Ph.D. (1985) degrees all from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Following graduate school, he joined AT&T Bell Laboratories in Holmdel, N.J. as a member of the Network Systems Research Department where he regaled his peers with levitated center conductor Hi-Tc superconducting cables, annoyed them by showing random lightwave network architectures performed as well as carefully sculpted ones, and puzzled them with odd applications of cellular automata. In 1990 when Arno (Penzias) told everyone in "Area 11" to go to academe if they were not keenly interested in the corporate bottom line (including his Nobel partner Bob [Wilson]), Chris was congratulated on his timing as he joined the E&CE at Rutgers University the very next week. He is currently a Professor of Engineering at Brown and a Fellow of the IEEE, cited "for contributions to wireless communication systems theory," and the recipient of the 2022 IEEE Undergraduate Teaching Award. He has also served as a full member of the Army Science Board (2012--2014).
His research interests have included novel mobile communications networks, applications of genetic algorithms to control problems in communications networks and interference avoidance methods using universal radios to foster peaceful coexistence in what will be the wireless ecology of the 5GHz U-NII bands. This work, co-authored with Sennur Ulukus and Roy Yates, received the 2003 IEEE Marconi Prize Paper Award in Wireless Communications. Here's a picture of the ecstatic authors at the Globecom 2004 awards ceremony (picture credit: Aylin Yener).
For fun, as an outgrowth of research on opportunistic communications, he also considered the details of a problem everyone has wondered about at one time or another: how will our first extraterrestrial civilization contact occur? The interesting twist is that it can be FAR more efficient for distant "little green people" to send information-bearing physical artifacts than electromagnetic signals -- seemingly at odds with current SETI wisdom. This work was featured on the cover of the September 2, 2004 issue of Nature and can be found (along with an astounding amount of press coverage, including a NY Times Editorial!!!) under the tongue-in-cheek rubric cosmic communications. Here's an associated cartoon competition!
He is currently interested in any and everything to which information/communication theory can be applied. Molecular communication and computing are currently funded topics.
Chris can be reached at Christopher_Rose AT Brown DOT edu
| Rose, Christopher. "Hide and Seek On A Budget." 2022 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), 2022. |
| Rose, Christopher, Medford, Andrew J., Goldsmith, C. Franklin, Vegge, Tejs, Weitz, Joshua S., Peterson, Andrew A. "Heterogeneity in susceptibility dictates the order of epidemic models." Journal of Theoretical Biology, vol. 528, 2021, pp. 110839. |
| Dombroski, Amanda, Oakley, Kady, Arcadia, Christopher, Nouraei, Farnaz, Chen, Shui Ling, Rose, Christopher, Rubenstein, Brenda, Rosenstein, Jacob, Reda, Sherief, Kim, Eunsuk. "Implementing parallel arithmetic via acetylation and its application to chemical image processing." Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, vol. 477, no. 2248, 2021. |
| Arcadia, Christopher E., Dombroski, Amanda, Oakley, Kady, Chen, Shui Ling, Tann, Hokchhay, Rose, Christopher, Kim, Eunsuk, Reda, Sherief, Rubenstein, Brenda M., Rosenstein, Jacob K. "Leveraging autocatalytic reactions for chemical domain image classification." Chemical Science, vol. 12, no. 15, 2021, pp. 5464-5472. |
| Kennedy, Eamonn, Geiser, Joseph, Arcadia, Christopher E., Weber, Peter M., Rose, Christopher, Rubenstein, Brenda M., Rosenstein, Jacob K. "Secret messaging with endogenous chemistry." Scientific Reports, vol. 11, no. 1, 2021, pp. 13960. |
| Shakya, Pratistha, Kennedy, Eamonn, Rose, Christopher, Rosenstein, Jacob K. "High-Dimensional Time Series Feature Extraction for Low-Cost Machine Olfaction." IEEE Sensors Journal, 2020, pp. 1-1. |
| Arcadia, Christopher E., Kennedy, Eamonn, Geiser, Joseph, Dombroski, Amanda, Oakley, Kady, Chen, Shui-Ling, Sprague, Leonard, Ozmen, Mustafa, Sello, Jason, Weber, Peter M., Reda, Sherief, Rose, Christopher, Kim, Eunsuk, Rubenstein, Brenda M., Rosenstein, Jacob K. "Multicomponent molecular memory." Nature Communications, vol. 11, no. 1, 2020, pp. 691. |
| Rosenstein, Jacob K., Rose, Christopher, Reda, Sherief, Weber, Peter M., Kim, Eunsuk, Sello, Jason, Geiser, Joseph, Kennedy, Eamonn, Arcadia, Christopher, Dombroski, Amanda, Oakley, Kady, Chen, Shui Ling, Tann, Hokchhay, Rubenstein, Brenda M. "Principles of Information Storage in Small-Molecule Mixtures." IEEE Transactions on NanoBioscience, vol. 19, no. 3, 2020, pp. 378-384. |
| Rose, Christopher, Mian, I. S., Ozmen, Mustafa. "Capacity Bounds on Point-to-Point Communication Using Molecules." Proceedings of the IEEE, vol. 107, no. 7, 2019, pp. 1342-1355. |
| Kennedy E, Arcadia CE, Geiser J, Weber PM, Rose C, Rubenstein BM, Rosenstein JK. "Encoding Information in Synthetic Metabolomes." PLoS ONE, vol. 14, no. 7, 2019, pp. e0217364. |
| Rose, Christopher, Reda, Sherief, Rubenstein, Brenda, Rosenstein, Jacob. "Computing with Chemicals: Perceptrons Using Mixtures of Small Molecules." 2018 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), 2018. |
| Shakya, Pratistha, Kennedy, Eamonn, Rose, Christopher, Rosenstein, Jacob K. "Correlated Transmission and Detection of Concentration-Modulated Chemical Vapor Plumes." IEEE Sensors Journal, vol. 18, no. 16, 2018, pp. 6504-6509. |
| Ozmen, Mustafa, Kennedy, Eamonn, Rose, Jacob, Shakya, Pratistha, Rosenstein, Jacob K., Rose, Christopher. "High Speed Chemical Vapor Communication Using Photoionization Detectors in Turbulent Flow." IEEE Transactions on Molecular, Biological and Multi-Scale Communications, vol. 4, no. 3, 2018, pp. 160-170. |
| Kennedy, Eamonn, Shakya, Pratistha, Ozmen, Mustafa, Rose, Christopher, Rosenstein, Jacob K. "Spatiotemporal information preservation in turbulent vapor plumes." Applied Physics Letters, vol. 112, no. 26, 2018, pp. 264103. |
| Farsad, Nariman, Rose, Christopher, Medard, Muriel, Goldsmith, Andrea. "Capacity of molecular channels with imperfect particle-intensity modulation and detection." 2017 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), 2017. |
| Rose, Christopher, Mian, I. S. "Inscribed Matter Communication: Part I." IEEE Transactions on Molecular, Biological and Multi-Scale Communications, vol. 2, no. 2, 2016, pp. 209-227. |
| Rose, Christopher, Mian, I. S. "Inscribed Matter Communication: Part II." IEEE Transactions on Molecular, Biological and Multi-Scale Communications, vol. 2, no. 2, 2016, pp. 228-239. |
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"State Estimation, Wireless Tropes, Demons and Uncertainty,." IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, 2016.
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"A Fundamental Framework for Molecular Communication Channels: timing &
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| Eckford, A.W. Krishnaswamy, D. Paluh, J.L. Rose, C. "Guest Editorial Series on Molecular, Biological, and Multiscale Communication." IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communication, vol. 32, no. 12, 2014, pp. 2313-2314. |
| Christopher Rose Ismat Saira Mian. "Signaling with Identical Tokens: upper bounds with energy constraints." IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, 2014, pp. 1817-1821. |
| Christopher Rose Ismat Saira Mian. "Signaling with identical Tokens: lower bounds with energy constraints." IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, 2013, pp. 1839-1843. |
| Ruochen Song Christopher Rose YiLin Tsai Ismat Saira Mian. "Wireless Signaling with Identical Quanta." IEEE WIreless Communication and Networking Conference'12, 2012, pp. 699-703. |
| Ismat Saira Mian Christopher Rose. "Communication theory and multicellular biology." Integrative Biology, vol. 3, no. 4, 2011, pp. 350-367. |
| "Advances in Multiuser Detection." [], 2008. |
| Popescu, Dimitrie C., Popescu, Otilia, Rose, Christopher. "Interference Avoidance and Multiaccess Vector Channels." IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 55, no. 8, 2007, pp. 1466-1471. |
| Popescu, Otilia, Popescu, Dimitrie, Rose, Christopher. "Simultaneous Water Filling in Mutually Interfering Systems." IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 6, no. 3, 2007, pp. 1102-1113. |
| Popescu, D.C., Rose, C. "Codeword optimization for uplink CDMA dispersive channels." IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 4, no. 4, 2005, pp. 1563-1574. |
| Das, Sajal K, Rose, Christopher. "Coping with Uncertainty in Mobile Wireless Networks." Emerging Location Aware Broadband Wireless Ad hoc Networks, edited by R. Ganesh, S. Kota, K. Pahlavan and R. Augusti, Springer, 2005, pp. 189-204. |
| Popescu, Otilia, Rose, Christopher. "Greedy SINR Maximization in Collaborative Multibase Wireless Systems." EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking, vol. 2004, no. 2, 2004. |
| Christopher Rose Gregory Wright. "Inscribed Matter As An Energy-Efficient Means of Communication with An Extraterrestrial Civilization." Nature, vol. 431, 2004, pp. 47-49. |
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Interference Avoidance Methods for Wireless Systems. Kluwer, 2004.
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| Popescu, Otilia, Rose, Christopher, Popescu, Dimitrie C. "Maximizing the determinant for a special class of block-partitioned matrices." Mathematical Problems in Engineering, vol. 2004, no. 1, 2004, pp. 49-61. |
| Popescu, O., Rose, C. "Sum Capacity and TSC Bounds in Collaborative Multibase Wireless Systems." IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 50, no. 10, 2004, pp. 2433-2438. |
| Popescu, Dimitrie C., Rose, Christopher. "Interference Avoidance for Wireless Systems." Wiley Encyclopedia of Telecommunications, 2003. |
| Popescu, D.C., Rose, C. "Multiuser MIMO systems and interference avoidance." 2003 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, 2003. Proceedings. (ICASSP '03)., 2003. |
| Rose, Christopher. "Paging and Registration in Mobile Networks." Wiley Encyclopedia of Telecommunications, 2003. |
| Christopher Rose Sennur Ulukus Roy Yates. "Wireless Systems and Interference Avoidance." IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communication, vol. 1, no. 3, 2002, pp. 415-428. |
| Rose, C. "CDMA codeword optimization: interference avoidance and convergence via class warfare." IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 47, no. 6, 2001, pp. 2368-2382. |
| Iacono, Ana Lúcia, Rose, Christopher. "Infostations: New Perspectives on Wireless Data Networks." Next Generation Wireless Networks, edited by S. Tekinay, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000, pp. 3-63. |
| Saraydar, C.U., Kelly, O.E., Rose, C. "One-dimensional location area design." IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 49, no. 5, 2000, pp. 1626-1632. |
| Rose, C. "State-based paging/registration: a greedy technique." IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 48, no. 1, 1999, pp. 166-173. |
| Yener, A., Rose, C. "Highly mobile users and paging: optimal polling strategies." IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 47, no. 4, 1998, pp. 1251-1257. |
| Christopher Rose Roy Yates. "Ensemble Polling Strategies for Increased Paging Capacity in Mobile Communication Networks." ACM WIreless Networks, vol. 3, no. 2, 1997, pp. 159-167. |
| Yener, A., Rose, C. "Genetic algorithms applied to cellular call admission: local policies." IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 46, no. 1, 1997, pp. 72-79. |
| Rose, C., Yates, R. "Location uncertainty in mobile networks: a theoretical framework." IEEE Communications Magazine, vol. 35, no. 2, 1997, pp. 94-101. |
| Yates, Roy, Rose, Christopher, Rajagopalan, Subhashini, Badrinath, B. R. "Analysis of a mobile-assisted adaptive location management strategy." Mobile Networks and Applications, vol. 1, no. 2, 1996, pp. 105-112. |
| Rose, Christopher, Yates, Roy D. "Genetic algorithms and call admission to telecommunications networks." Computers & Operations Research, vol. 23, no. 5, 1996, pp. 485-499. |
| Rose, C. "Minimizing the average cost of paging and registration: A timer-based method." Wireless Networks, vol. 2, no. 2, 1996, pp. 109-116. |
| Rose, Christopher, Yates, Roy. "Minimizing the average cost of paging under delay constraints." Wireless Networks, vol. 1, no. 2, 1995, pp. 211-219. |
| Christopher Rose Roy Yates. "Minimizing the Average Cost of Paging Under Delay Constraints." ACM WIreless Networks, vol. 1, no. 2, 1995, pp. 211-219. |
| Rose, Christopher, Yates, Roy D. "Scheduling arrivals to queues for minimum average blocking: The S(n)/M/C/C system." Computers & Operations Research, vol. 22, no. 8, 1995, pp. 793-806. |
| Rose, C. "Low mean internodal distance network topologies and simulated annealing." IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 40, no. 8, 1992, pp. 1319-1326. |
| Rose, C. "Mean internodal distance in regular and random multihop networks." IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 40, no. 8, 1992, pp. 1310-1318. |
| Winters, J.H., Rose, C. "High-T/sub c/ superconductor waveguides: theory and applications." IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, vol. 39, no. 4, 1991, pp. 617-623. |
| Rose, C., Gans, M.J. "A Dielectric-Free Superconducting Coaxial Cable." IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, vol. 38, no. 2, 1990, pp. 166-177. |
| Winters, Jack H., Rose, Christopher. "Minimum distance automata in parallel networks for optimum classification." Neural Networks, vol. 2, no. 2, 1989, pp. 127-132. |
| Christopher Rose. "Rapid Optimal Scheduling for Time-Multiplex Switches Using a Cellular Automaton." IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 37, no. 5, 1989, pp. 500-509. |
| Weiss, T.F., Rose, C. "A comparison of synchronization filters in different auditory receptor organs." Hearing Research, vol. 33, no. 2, 1988, pp. 175-179. |
| Christopher Rose Thomas F. Weiss. "Frequency Dependence of Synchronization of Cochlear Nerve Fibers in the Alligator Lizard: evidence for a cochlear origin of timing and non-timing neural pathways." Hearing Research, vol. 33, 1988, pp. 151-166. |
| Weiss, T.F., Rose, C. "Stages of degradation of timing information in the cochlea: A comparison of hair-cell and nerve-fiber responses in the alligator lizard." Hearing Research, vol. 33, no. 2, 1988, pp. 167-174. |
| Rose, C., Hluchyj, M. "The Performance of Random and Optimal Scheduling in a Time-Multiplex Switch." IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 35, no. 8, 1987, pp. 813-817. |
Communication Theory As An Organizing Principle for EVERYTHING:
Interaction is often defined in terms of empirical observation about outcomes and relationships -- reactants move toward some equilibrium, momentum and energy are conserved, elements of an organism ``signal'' each other chemically, mechanically and electrically. These observations are mathematically framed and the resulting equations often have great predictive power -- which is the whole point of science. However, any interaction is a communication and communication implies some sort of information exchange, in essence a quantification or even digitization of what is knowable about systems and their elements. So, to any communication theorist trained in the physical sciences, a basic question comes immediately to mind -- what are all these interacting elements saying to one another, how are they saying it and can I listen in and join the conversation?
Please see http://brown.edu/worldofbits
Examples:
We write too much and we read too much!!!
The academic ladder is papered with papers which serve as a proxy for influence (and thus promotion). It sometimes seems that within hours of an area's inception, the literature becomes too voluminous to follow. There may be some utility to going back to careful rumination and teaching and only publishing work of special significance as intellectual organizing principles. Alternatively, we need to figure out ways to insert reliably vetted work into the scientific edifice with minimal human oversight such that knowledge can later be easily found, properly attributed and then effectively utilized by the most important part of the enterprise -- humans with human creativity.
| Year | Degree | Institution |
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| 1985 | PhD | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| 1981 | SM | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| 1979 | BS | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
2022 IEEE Undergraduate Teaching Award
2015-2016 Brown ONYX Society Award for Service/Dedication to Black Students
MLK, Jr. VIsiting Professor of EECS, MIT 2013-2014
Army Science Board Member (2012-2014)
Teaching Excellence Award, Rutgers Engineering Governing Council (2006, 2009, 2010, 2013)
Best Teacher in Engineering, Rutgers Engineering Governing Council (2011)
2007 IEEE Fellow cited for "Contributions to wireless communication system theory."
2003 Marconi Prize Paper Award in Wireless Communications
Outstanding Service as General Chair, ACM SIGMOBILE MobiCom 2001
Outstanding Service as Executive Committee Member, 1997-2001, ACM SIGMOBILE
Henry Rutgers Research Fellow, 1990
Bell Laboratories Cooperative Research Fellowship, 1979–1985
NSF Fellowship, Awarded 1979 (declined)
GEM Fellowship, Awarded 1979 (declined)
| Name | Title |
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| Geiser, Joseph | Senior Research Associate in Chemistry |
| Kim, Eunsuk | Professor of Chemistry |
| Larson, Lawrence | Professor of Engineering |
| Mittleman, Daniel | Professor of Engineering |
| Reda, Sherief | Professor of Engineering, Professor of Computer Science |
| Rosenstein, Jacob | Associate Professor of Engineering |
| Rubenstein, Brenda | Associate Professor of Chemistry, Associate Professor of Physics |
| Sello, Jason | Adjunct Professor of Chemistry |
| Weber, Peter | Jesse Houghton Metcalf Professor of Chemistry |
Professor of Engineering, Director, STEMJazz Programs (2023--)
Professor of Engineering, Associate Provost for STEM Initiatives (2020-2023)
Senior Editor, IEEE JSAC, 2016--2023
Editorial Board Member, Entropy 2023 --
Board Member, The Steve Fund
| ENGN 1580 - Communication Systems |
