Center for Human Adaptive Systems and Environments (CHASE)
Just established, CHASE will house research on adaptive systems composed of human behaviors that are fundamentally intertwined with their environments. CHASE’s mission is to build an interdisciplinary faculty group with a research approach that cuts across many scales and levels of analysis — from neurons and neural networks, to the interaction between humans/groups and their environments. Led by the faculty in Cognitive and Information Sciences at UC Merced, CHASE’s theoretical motivation stems from recent developments in complexity research showing that human adaptive systems interact with their environments in lawful ways across scales and disciplinary bounds. Such lawful principles may transform our understanding of human adaptive systems, and our ability to guide and shape their interactions with environments toward sustainability and health.
CHASE steering committee:
Ramesh Balasubramaniam (Director)
David Ardell (Quantitative & Systems Biology)
YangQuan Chen (Mechanical Engineering)
Chris Kello (Cognitive & Information Sciences)
Emilia Huerta-Sanchez (Quantitative & Systems Biology)
Teenie Matlock (Cognitive & Information Sciences)
Suzanne Sindi (Applied Mathematics)
Michael Spivey (Cognitive & Information Sciences)
Stefano Carpin (Electrical Engineering & Computer Science)
CHASE steering committee:
Ramesh Balasubramaniam (Director)
David Ardell (Quantitative & Systems Biology)
YangQuan Chen (Mechanical Engineering)
Chris Kello (Cognitive & Information Sciences)
Emilia Huerta-Sanchez (Quantitative & Systems Biology)
Teenie Matlock (Cognitive & Information Sciences)
Suzanne Sindi (Applied Mathematics)
Michael Spivey (Cognitive & Information Sciences)
Stefano Carpin (Electrical Engineering & Computer Science)