The University of Sheffield
Automatic Control and Systems Engineering

Professor Daniel Coca
Professor of Nonlinear & Complex Systems

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Address:
Professor Daniel Coca, MEng, PhD, CEng, MIEE
Department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering
University of Sheffield
Sheffield
S1 3JD
Tel: (+44) (0)114 222 5619
Fax: (+44) (0)114 222 5683
Email: d.coca @ sheffield.ac.uk
Room: C7b, Amy Johnson Building

Research interests
Grants
Professional activities and recognition
Publications

Research interests

My research work spans the broad area of nonlinear and complex dynamical systems. I am interested in developing novel mathematical, computational and analytical methods to analyse, model and control complex dynamical systems as well as apply the tools developed to complex systems in physics, engineering, life sciences and finance.

Complex systems modelling, identification and control:
Stem cell population dynamics; Crystal growth; Brain activity; Solar wind - magnetosphere interaction; Financial markets.

Bioimaging & biological data analysis:
Diffuse Optical Tomography; Protein Identification/Protein Mass Fingerprinting; Cell imaging data analysis.

Nonlinear Control Theory:
Controller design for nonlinear PDEs; Nonlinear predictive control.

Reconfigurable computers:
FPGA hardware acceleration of protein identification algorithms; FPGA implementation of computationally intensive control & optimization algorithms.

See the Centre for Signal Processing and Complex Systems Research and the Centre for Signal Processing in Neuroimaging and Systems Neuroscience websites for more details:

Centre for Signal Processing and Complex Systems Research

Centre for Signal Processing in Neuroimaging and Systems Neuroscience

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Grants

BBSRC, D. Coca, M. Juusola, S.A. Billings `Reverse Engineering Drosophila´s Retinal Networks´, 15.08.10 to 14.08.13, £648,008
EPSRC, S.A. Billings, D. Coca, `Spatio-temporal systems estimation modelling and analysis´, 04.01.10 to 03.01.14, £566,226
EPSRC, S.A. Billings, M. Balikhin, D. Coca, V.Kadirkamanathan, Z.Lang, H. Wei, `System Identification and Information Processing for Complex Systems´, 02.01.10 to 01.01.15, £1,442,972
MRC Fellowship, D. Coca, `Stem Cell Dynamics: Exploration of the Stem Cell Attractor Landscape´, 1.10.09-30.09.10, £109,000
BBSRC, D Coca and R Beynon, `FPGA Supercomputing Technology for High-throughput Identification and Quantification in Proteomics´, 15.03.08 to 14.03.11, £515,001
BBSRC, D Coca, R Beynon, 'Hardware Accelerated Data Processing Pipeline For Proteomics', 15.03.08 to 14.03.09, £98,559
The University of Sheffield, D. Coca, R. Beynon, S. Smith, V. Hughues. Proof Of Concept Fund Award, `Hardware acceleration of data processing in proteomics´, 01.11.07 to 01.05.08, £10,000
EPSRC, Q Zhong, A Zolotas, D Coca, K Li and S Evangelou. `New-ACE: A Network for New Academics in Control Engineering´, 01.10.07 to 30.09.10, £87,800
EPSRC, S A Billings, D Coca, `System Identification and Model validation for Spatio-Temporal Dynamical Systems´, 01.08.06 to 31.07.09, £292,797
EPSRC, S A Billings, Y Zheng, J Martingdale, D Coca and J E W Mayhew, `System Identification and Signal Processing for Neuro-Imaging data Analysis´, 02.01.06 to 01.01.09, £264,277
EPSRC Platform Grant, S A Billings, V Kadirkamanathan, Z Q Lang, D Coca, M Balikhin, `System Identification and Signal Processing for Complex Systems´, 03.01.05 to 02.01.10, £422,571
EPSRC, D Coca, ` Adaptive Control of Infinite Dimensional Systems using Reconfigurable Computers´, 15.11.04 to 14.11.07, £132,014
BBSRC, R. Beynon and D Coca, ` Application of Field Programmable Gate Arrays to Eliminate Bottlenecks in Near-instrument Proteomics´, 15.11.04 to 14.11.07, £230,130
Royal Society, D. Coca and V. Barbu, `Optimal Control and Stabilization of Parabolic-like Equations´, 01.11.04 to 15.11.04, £1,400

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Professional activities and recognition

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Publications

2010

  1. Tonge, P.D., Olariu, V., Coca, D., Kadirkamanathan, V., Burrell, K.E., Billings, S.A., Andrews, P.W., (2010), Prepatterning in the Stem Cell Compartment, PLoS ONE, 5(5): e10901. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0010901.
  2. Olariu, V., Harrison, N.J., Coca, D., Gokhale, P., Baker, P., Billings, S.A., Kadirkamanathan, V. and Andrews, P.W., (2010), Modelling the evolution of culture adapted human embryonic stem cells, Stem Cell Research, vol 4(1), 50-56.
  3. Zheng, Y., Pan, Y., Harris, S., Billings, S. A., Coca, D., Berwick, J., Jones, M., Kennerley, A., Johnston, D., Martin, C., Devonshire, I.M., Mayhew, J. (2010), A dynamic model of neurovascular coupling: Implications for blood vessel dilation and constriction, NeuroImage, vol 52 (3), 1135-1147.
  4. Boynton, R., Balikhin, M., Billings, S.A., Gedalin, M., Ganuskina, N., Coca, D., Wei, H. (2010), Data based quest for solar wind-magnetosphere coupling function, Geophysical Research Letters, Accepted for Publication.
  5. Zhao, Y., Billings, S.A., Coca, D., Guo, Y., Ristic, R., De Matos, L.L., (2010), Identification of a Temperature Dependent FitzHugh-Nagumo model for the Belousov-Zhabotinskii Reaction, Int. J. Bifurcation and Chaos, Accepted for Publication.
  6. Guo, L., Billings, S.A., Coca, D., Balikhin, M. (2010), Bayesian identification of stochastic linear systems with observations at multiple scales, Int. J. Systems Science, DOI: 10.1080/00207721.2010.518253.
  7. Guo, L., Billings, S.A., Coca, D., (2010), Identification of partial differential equation models for a class of multiscale spatio-temporal dynamical systems, Int. J. Control, vol. 83(1),40 - 48.

2009

  1. Bogdan, I., Coca, D., Beynon, R. J. (2009) Peptide mass fingerprinting using Field Programmable Gate Arrays, IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems, vol. 3, 142 - 149.
  2. Yan, Y. Coca, D., Barbu, V. (2009), Finite-dimensional controller design for semilinear parabolic systems, Nonlinear Analysis: Theory, Methods & Applications, vol. 70, 4451-4475, vol. 29, 225-242.
  3. Barbu, T., Barbu, V. Biga, V., Coca. D. (2009), A PDE variational approach to image denoising and restoration, Nonlinear Analysis: Real World Applications, Volume: 10 Issue: 3 Pages: 1351-1361.
  4. Zhao, Y., Billings, S.A., Coca, D., (2009) Cellular automata modelling of dendritic crystal growth based on Moore and von Neumann neighbourhoods, Int. J. Modelling, Identification and Control, vol 6, 119-125.
  5. Wei, H. L., Zheng, Y., Pan, Y., Coca, D., Li, L-M., Mayhew, J.E.W., Billings, S.A. (2009), Model estimation of cerebral hemodynamics between blood flow and volume changes: A data-based modelling approach, IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Systems, vol. 56, 1606-1616.
  6. Guo, L.Z., Billings, S.A. D Coca, (2009), Consistent recursive parameter estimation of partial differential equation models, Int. J. Control, vol. 82, 1946-1954.
  7. Olariu, V., Coca, D., Billings, S. A., Tonge, P., Gokhale, P. Andrews, P., Kadirkamanathan, V., (2009), Modified variational Bayes EM estimation of hidden Markov tree model of cell lineages, Bionformatics, vol. 25(21), 2824-2830.
  8. Guo, L., Billings, S.A., Coca, D., (2009), Identification of partial differential equation models for a class of multiscale spatio-temporal dynamical systems, Int. J. Control, doi:10.1080/00207170903085597.
  9. Guo, L.Z., Billings, S.A. D Coca, (2009), Identification of multiscale spatio-temporal dynamical systems using a wavelet multiresolution analysis. Int. J. Systems Science, In Press.
  10. Zhao, Y., Billings, S.A., Coca, D., Rile, R., De Matos, L.L., (2009), Identification of Transition Rule in a Modified Cellular Automata Model: The Case of Dendritic NHBr Crystal Growth, Int. J. Bifurcation and Chaos, Vol.19(7), 2295-2305.

2008

  1. Bogdan, I., Rivers, J., Beynon, R. J., Coca, D. (2008) High-performance hardware implementation of a parallel database search engine for real-time peptide mass fingerprinting, Bioinformatics, vol. 24, 1498-1502.
  2. Yan, Y. Coca, D. Barbu, V. (2008), Internal Optimal Controller Synthesis for Navier-Stokes Equations, Nonlinear Functional Analysis and Optimization, vol. 29, 225-242.
  3. Guo, Y., Billings, S.A., Coca, D., (2008) Identification of n-State spatio-temporal dynamical systems using a polynomial model, Int. J. Bifurcation and Chaos, vol.17., 2049-2057.

2000-2007

  1. Bogdan, I., Coca, D., Rivers, J., Beynon, R., 2007, Hardware acceleration of processing of mass spectrometric data for proteomics, Bioinformatics, vol. 23, 724 - 731.
  2. Zhu D., Billings S.A., Balikhin M., Wing S., Coca D., 2006, Data derived continuous model for magnetospheric dynamics. Geophysical Research Letters, vol. 33, L04101, doi:10.1029/2005GL025022.
  3. Barbu V., Coca D., Yan, Y., 2005, Stabilizing semiliniar parabolic equations, Nonlinear Functional Analysis and Optimization , vol 26, Nos 4-5, pp. 449-480.
  4. Gedalin M., Bregman, M., Balikhin M., Coca D., Consolini G., Treumann R. A., 2005, Avalanches in bi-directional sandpile and burning models: A comparative study, Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics, vol. 12, pp. 733-739.
  5. Gedalin M., Balikhin M., Coca D., Consolini, G., Treumann R. A., 2005, Dynamics of the burning model, Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics, vol. 12, pp. 717-723.
  6. Gedalin, M., Balikhin, M., Coca D., Consolini G., Treumann R. A., 2005, Kinetic description of avalanching systems, Phys. Rev. E.,vol. 72, vol. 72, 037103.
  7. Coca D., 2003, Review of results and perspectives of nonlinear process identification from experimental data. Advances in Space Research, vol. 32, No. 3, pp. 337-345.
  8. Coca D. and Billings S. A., 2003, Analysis and reconstruction of stochastic coupled map lattice models, Physics Letters A, vol. 315, no. 1-2, p. 61-75.
  9. Billings S. A. and Coca D., 2002, Identification of coupled map lattice models of deterministic distributed parameter systems. International Journal of Systems Science, vol. 33, no. 8, p. 623-634.
  10. Coca D. and Billings S. A., 2002, Identification of finite dimensional models of infinite dimensional systems. Automatica, vol. 38, no. 11, p. 1851-1865.
  11. Coca D. and Billings S. A., 2001, Nonlinear system identification using wavelet multiresolution models. International Journal of Control, vol. 74, no. 18, p. 1718-1736.
  12. Coca D., Balikhin, M., Billings S. A., Alleyne, H.S.C.K., Dunlop, 2001, Time domain analysis of plasma turbulence observed upstream of a quasi-parallel shock. Journal of Geophysical Research, vol. 106, no. A11, p. 25005-25021.
  13. Coca D. and Billings S. A., 2001, Identification of coupled map lattice models of complex spatio-temporal patterns, Physics Letters A, vol. 287, p. 65-73.
  14. Coca D., Zhang Y., Mayhew J. E. W., Billings S.A., 2000, Nonlinear system identification and analysis of quasiperiodic oscillations in reflected light measurements of vasomotion. International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos, vol. 10, no. 2, p. 461-476.

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