Professor Radek Erban wins Keynote Presentation Award at ACM NanoCom

Congratulations to Professor Radek Erban who was presented with the Keynote Presentation Award at the ACM NanoCom 2023 in September.

ACM NanoCom is a series on annual international conferences discussing recent developments in nanotechnology, with the focus on computing and communications at near-atomic scale (nanoscale). ACM Nanocom 2023 brought together researchers from diverse disciplines, including electrical and electronic engineering, computer science, biology, chemistry, physics, mathematics, bioengineering, biotechnology and materials science. 

Recent developments in nanotechnology have enabled the manufacturing of low-power and low-cost nanoscale machines, i.e., nanomachines, with basic sensing, actuating and computing capabilities. Due to their size and simple structure, nanomachines individually have limited functionality. However, when they start to communicate to each other and construct nanonetworks, they can collaboratively achieve more complex tasks and promise new solutions for several applications in biomedical industry.  

Prof. Erban's keynote was on the multi-resolution simulations at the nanoscale, a class of new computational methods which enable mathematical modelling and computational simulations in this fast-growing research area. Multi-resolution methods improve accuracy of computations, because they take into account detailed information on the structure and function of biomolecules, like DNA and proteins, and they enable simulations of larger biomedical systems than traditional methods. They have been developed by Prof. Erban and his collaborators, who are based in the UK, US, Japan, Germany, Sweden and Australia.