Dr. Gemunu Gunaratne, Professor of Physics, Chairman of Physics Department 

Department of Physics, College of Natural Science and Mathematics

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• Areas of expertise

  • Spatio-Temporal Dynamics
  • Genetic Networks
  • Quantitative Finance
  • Models of Animal Behavior

• Awards

  • John C. Butler Excellence in Teaching Award, 2009

• Publications

  • S. Roy, J.-C. Hua, W. Barnhill, G. H. Gunaratne, and J. R. Gord, Deconvolution of reacting flow dynamics using proper orthogonal and dynamic mode decompositions, Phys. Rev. E., 91, 013001 (2015).
  • J. Shulman, F. Malatino, M. Widjaja, and G. H. Gunaratne, Experimental Deter- mination of Circuit Equations, American Journal of Physics, 83 64 (2015).
  • J.-C. Hua, L. Chen, L. Falcon, J. L. McCauley, and G. H. Gunaratne, Variable Diffusion in Stock Market Fluctuations, Physica A 419, 221-233 (2015).
  • B. Soibam, L. Chen, G. W. Roman, and G. H. Gunaratne, Exploratory Activity and Habituation of Drosophila in Confined Domain, European Journal of Physics 223, 1787-1803 (2014).
  • J. Shulman, F. Malatino, A. Mo, K. Ryan, and G. H. Gunaratne, Controlling Net- works of Nonlinearly-Coupled Nodes using Response Surfaces, Scientific Reports 4, 7574 (2014).
  • B. Soibam, S. Shah, G. H. Gunaratne, and G. W. Roman, Modeling novelty ha- bituation during exploratory activity in Drosophila, Behavioral Processes, 97, 63-75 (2013).
  • J.-C. Hua, G. H. Gunaratne, S. Kostka, N. Jiang, B. V. Kiel, J. R. Gord, and S. Roy, Dynamical-systems analysis and unstable periodic orbits in reacting flows behind symmetric bluff bodies, Phys. Rev. E, 88, 033011 (2013).
  • S. Narayan, G. H. Gunaratne, and F. Hussain, Dynamical systems approach to the control of chaotic dynamics in a spatiotemporal jet flow, Chaos, 23, 033133 (2013).
  • B. Soibam, R. L. Goldfeder, C. Manson-Bishop, R. Gramblin, S. Pletcher, S. Shah, G. H. Gunaratne, G. Roman, Modeling Drosophila Positional Preferences in Open Field Arenas with Directional Persistence and Wall Attraction, PLoS one 7, e476570 (2012).
  • L. Seemann, J. Shulman, and G. H. Gunaratne, A Robust Topology-Based Algorithm for Gene Expression Profiling, ISNR Bioinformatics, 2012, 381023 (2012).

  For more publications, see Faculty Website above.

• Patents

  • Methods For Performing DAF Data Filtering And Padding, 6847737 (2005).
  • Fabrication of Self-Assembling Nano-Structures (Pending).
  • New Methods for Gene Expression Profiling (provisional Patent).

• Grants and Funded Research

  • NSF Grant for Composition Graded, Epitaxial Oxide Nanostructures: Fabrication and Properties, 2007-2013, $1,000,000
  • NSF Grant for Composition Graded, Invariant Characteristics of Networks and Patterns and Their Applications, 2002-2006, $195,000
  • NSF Grant for Composition Graded, Analysis and Characterization of Natural Patterns, 1999-2002, $105,000.

• Curriculum Vitae

  • Not available.

• Contact information

  SR1, Room 629B

  Phone:  713-743-3534 | 

  gemunu@uh.edu