Christopher Rose

About

Christopher Rose is a Professor of Engineering at Brown University and serves as the Director of STEMJazz Programs. His research interests encompass communication theory as an organizing principle, wireless communication, molecular communication, mobile networks, communication theory and physics, genetic algorithms, interference avoidance, and MIMO technology. Rose has a broad view of his field, considering it on a cosmic scale, and is involved in advancing understanding and innovation within these areas. He has been recognized for his innovative teaching and support for students, receiving the IEEE Undergraduate Teaching Award, and has been honored with university awards for student advising and mentoring. In addition to his research and teaching, Rose has held administrative roles, including being named Associate Provost at Brown University. His work and contributions are noted in various news articles and university communications, highlighting his influence in both academic and practical aspects of communication technology.

Research topics

• Computer Science
• Database
• Chemistry
• Combinatorial chemistry

Selected publications

• Multicomponent molecular memory

  Nature Communications · 2020 · 72 citations

  Multicomponent reactions enable the synthesis of large molecular libraries from relatively few inputs. This scalability has led to the broad adoption of these reactions by the pharmaceutical industry. Here, we employ the four-component Ugi reaction to demonstrate that multicomponent reactions can provide a basis for large-scale molecular data storage. Using this combinatorial chemistry we encode more than 1.8 million bits of art historical images, including a Cubist drawing by Picasso. Digital d…

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• Heterogeneity in susceptibility dictates the order of epidemic models

  Journal of Theoretical Biology · 2021-07-24 · 33 citations

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• High-Dimensional Time Series Feature Extraction for Low-Cost Machine Olfaction

  IEEE Sensors Journal · 2020-01-01 · 22 citations

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  The complexity of airborne odors offers interesting challenges and opportunities for chemical detection and identification. Biological olfactory systems have evolved to extract information from spatiotemporally complex odor plumes, but many engineered electronic noses use only coarse time features while neglecting valuable transient fluctuations. In this paper, we use the TruffleBot, our low-cost e-nose platform, to dynamically `sniff' odors while collecting multidimensional chemical, pressure a…

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• Leveraging autocatalytic reactions for chemical domain image classification

  Chemical Science · 2021-01-01 · 11 citations

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  Autocatalysis is fundamental to many biological processes, and kinetic models of autocatalytic reactions have mathematical forms similar to activation functions used in artificial neural networks. Inspired by these similarities, we use an autocatalytic reaction, the copper-catalyzed azide-alkyne cycloaddition, to perform digital image recognition tasks. Images are encoded in the concentration of a catalyst across an array of liquid samples, and the classification is performed with a sequence of…

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• Secret messaging with endogenous chemistry

  Scientific Reports · 2021-07-06 · 2 citations

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  Data encoded in molecules offers opportunities for secret messaging and extreme information density. Here, we explore how the same chemical and physical dimensions used to encode molecular information can expose molecular messages to detection and manipulation. To address these vulnerabilities, we write data using an object's pre-existing surface chemistry in ways that are indistinguishable from the original substrate. While it is simple to embed chemical information onto common objects (covers)…

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Recent grants

• CDI Type I:A Communications Theory Approach to Morphogenesis and Architecture Maintenance

  NSF · $756k · 2008–2012

Frequent coauthors

• Jacob K. Rosenstein

  Providence College

  71 shared

• Eamonn Kennedy

  VA Salt Lake City Healthcare System

  53 shared

• Brenda M. Rubenstein

  Providence College

  44 shared

• Christopher E. Arcadia

  Brown University

  39 shared

• Sherief Reda

  31 shared

• Eunsuk Kim

  Brown University

  28 shared

• Amanda Dombroski

  Brown University

  28 shared

• Pratistha Shakya

  28 shared

Education

• Ph.D., EECS

  Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  1985

• SM, EECS

  Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  1981

• SB, EECS

  Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  1979

Awards & honors

• IEEE Undergraduate Teaching Award (2022)

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