Malcolm MacIver
2145 Sheridan Road
Tech D157
Evanston, IL 60208-3107
Phone: 847-491-3540
Email:
MacIver Lab
Ph.D. Neuroscience
Univeristy of Illinois at Urbana, Champaign, IL
M.A. Philosophy
University of Toronto, Toronto, ON
B.S. Computer Science
University of Toronto, Toronto, ON
Research Interest:
Robotic models and large-scale simulations of animal behavior, mechanics, and sensory function. Robotic electrosense and bio-inspired propulsion systems. Neural circuits and sensory processing for natural behaviors. Evolution.
Selected Publications:
MacIver, M. A. Fitting Science and Screen [Book Review]. Science, 6 May 2011: Vol. 332 no. 6030 p. 665. DOI: 10.1126/science.1205130.
MacIver, M. A., Patankar, N. A., Lauder, G. V., Shirgaonkar, A. A., Curet, O. M. Why knifefish are shaped like knives. In review, Proceedings of the Royal Society B.
Shirgaonkar, A. A., MacIver, M. A., Patankar, N.A. The balance between drag and thrust in undulatory propulsion. In revision, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Ricardo Ruiz Torres, Oscar M. Curet, George V. Lauder, Malcolm A. MacIver. The kinematics of ribbon fin propulsion in a weakly electric knifefish. To be submitted June 2011 to Journal of Experimental Biology.
Curet, O.M., Patankar, N. A., Lauder, G.V., MacIver, M. A. (2011) Mechanical properties of a bio-inspired robotic knifefish with an undulatory propulsor. Bioinspiration & Biomimetics, published online before print April 7, 2011, doi:10.1088/1748-3182/6/2/026004.
Curet, O.M., Patankar, N. A., Lauder, G.V., MacIver, M. A. (2010) Aquatic maneuvering with counter-propagating waves: a novel locomotive strategy. Journal of the Royal Society Interface, July 6, 2011 8:1041-1050; published online before print December 22, 2010, doi: 10.1098/rsif.2010.0493. Cover.
MacIver, M.A., Patankar, N. A., Shirgaonkar, A. A. (2010) Energy-information trade-offs between movement and sensing. PLoS Computational Biology 6(5): e1000769. doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000769.
Curet, O.M., AlAli, I. K., MacIver, M.A., Patankar, N. A. (2010) A versatile implicit iterative approach for fully resolved simulation of self-propulsion. Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, doi:10.1016/j.cma.2010.03.026.
Shirgaonkar, A. S., MacIver, M. A., Patankar, N. A. (2009) A new mathematical formulation and fast algorithm for fully resolved simulation of self-propulsion. Journal of Computational Physics, 228, 2366-2390.
Postlethwaite, C. M., Psemeneki, T. M., Selimkhanov*, J., Silber, M., MacIver, M. A. (2009) Optimal movement in the prey strikes of weakly electric fish: A case study of the interplay of body plan and movement capability. Journal of the Royal Society Interface. Published online Oct 8, 2008; doi:10.1098/rsif.2008.0286; published in journal 2009. *Undergraduate researcher.
Shirgaonkar, A. A., Curet, O.M., Patankar, N. A., MacIver, M. A. (2008) The hydrodynamics of ribbon-fin propulsion under impulsive motion. Journal of Experimental Biology 211: 3490-3503.
Solberg, J. R., Lynch, K. M., & MacIver, M. A. (2008). Active electrolocation for underwater target localization. International Journal of Robotics Research, 27(5), 529-548.
Snyder, J.B., Nelson, M.E., Burdick, J. W., MacIver, M.A. (2007) Omnidirectional sensory and movement volumes in electric fish. PLoS Biology 5(11): e301.
Nelson, M.E. and MacIver, M.A. (2006) Sensory acquisition in active sensing systems. Journal of Comparative Physiology A 192: 573-586.
MacIver, M.A., Fontaine, E., Burdick, J. W. (2004) Designing future underwater vehicles: principles and mechanisms of the weakly electric fish. IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering 29(3):651-659.
