Dr. Rudiyanto Gunawan is engaged in a broad range of research activities in the areas of computational systems biology and bioinformatics. He leads the Chemical and Biological Systems Engineering Laboratory (CABSEL). His primary specializations include network inference, dynamical systems modeling and analysis, and design of experiments. Research activities in CABSEL are driven by the mission to create enabling tools for extracting novel insights from large-scale multimodal biological data through the construction and analysis of biological network models and machine learning, and to apply these tools to gain a better understanding of and to formulate interventions for human diseases and aging. Research applications in CABSEL span multiple length- and time scales in biology, from gene regulatory networks to signaling pathways to metabolic networks and from single cells to cell cultures. The resulting computational tools have been applied to give answers to biological questions of biotechnological, biomedical and biopharmaceutical significance.

• Ph.D. Chemical Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 2003
• M.S. Chemical Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 2000
• B.S. Chemical Engineering and Mathematics, University of Wisconsin – Madison, 1998

• 2014- Group Leader, Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics
• 2011- Assistant Professor, ETH Zurich
• 2006-2011 Assistant Professor, National University of Singapore
• 2008-2010 Singapore-MIT Alliance Fellow, Chemical & Pharmaceutical Engineering
• 2007-2008 Singapore-MIT Alliance Visiting Professor
• 2003-2006 Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California Santa Barbara
• 1998-2003 Research Assistant, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
• 2000 Lecturer, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
• 1999-2000 Teaching Assistant, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Committee:

• Scientific Committee, International Conference on Systems Biology (ICSB) 2018, Lyon, France.
• International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC) TC 6.1 Working Group Chair for Systems Biology, August 2017 -present.
• Organizing Committee, Foundations of Systems Biology in Engineering (FOSBE), Chicago, USA, 2018.
• Organizing Committee, 15th International Conference on Molecular Systems Biology, Munich, Germany, 2017.
• Area chair International Programming Committee, Foundations of Systems Biology in Engineering (FOSBE), Magdeburg, Germany, 2016.
• Scoring review panel, sbvImprover Systems Toxicology Challenge, Philip-Morris International, starting May 2015.
• Scoring review panel, sbvImprover Species Translational Challenge, Philip-Morris International, March-December 2013.
• Organizing Committee, International Symposium on Advanced Control of Chemical Processes (ADCHEM), Singapore, July 2012
• Organizing Committee, 5th International Symposium on Design, Operation and Control of Chemical Processes, Singapore, July 2010
• Programming Committee, 3rd International Conference on Bioinformatics and Systems Biology (BSB), Chongqing, China, July 2010
• Programming Committee, International Conference on Molecular Systems Biology (ICMSB), UP Diliman, Philippines, February 2008.

Editorial Board Memberships:

• Member of Editorial Board: Processes, ScienceMatters
• Member of Editorial Advisory Board: Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research (2014-2017)

Professional Societies:

• Member, American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE)
• Member, Institute Society for Computational Biology
• Member, Society for Biological Engineering
• Member, IEEE