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i3Bio
Website: http://i3bio.gds.unomaha.edu/
Technical Contact: James Harr – jharr@unomaha.edu
Overview:
Advances in medicine such as organ and bone marrow transplantation have increased the number of
people who are immuno-compromised and susceptible to mycobacterial infections. Mycobacteria in
general and Mycobacterium tuberculosis specifically are known as the great imitators in clinical
medicine because the symptoms that they cause resemble numerous other diseases. The ability to
detect and identify microbial pathogens rapidly for optimal patient management is limited by growthbased
phenotypic testing methods now used in the microbiology laboratory. This limitation is of greatest
challenge for the evaluation of those pathogens that grow slow, those that require specialized methods
for detection and identification, and for those emerging pathogens that have become more common in
current clinical practice. Organisms commonly associated within this group include, but are not limited
to the Mycobacterium species and fungi.
Cmantic Lab – Collaborative Multi-Agent Networking Technologies and
Intelligent
Location: PKI362
Director: Dr. Raj Dasqupta
Technical Contact: Mohammad Shafiullah - mshafiullah.ne@gmail.com
Website: http://prithviraj.dasgupta.googlepages.com/cmanticlabpage
Equipment:
4 Dell Desktops
1 Printer
Overview:
This research lab focuses on the following major topics: multi-agent systems, swarmed robotics and
game theory and computational economics.
Led by Dr. Raj Dasgupta, the research focus for the group is in developing technologies for coordinating
individual resource-constrained components to behave collectively and collaboratively as a single, largescale
distributed system. A major application is controlling a team of mobile mini-robots using multiagent
algorithms. The unique contribution of this research has been to integrate market-based
techniques for multi-robot coordination with swarm-based techniques for robot control.
We are currently developing technologies for coordinating individual resource-constrained components
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