My path to contentment

My Path from Chemistry to Phytochrome and Circadian Rhythms

I summarize my scientific journey from my first interest in science to my career investigating how plants use the phytochrome photoreceptor to regulate what genes they express. I then describe how this work led to an understanding of how circadian rhythms function in plants and to the discovery of CCA1, a component of the plant central oscillator.

Reflections on My Two Years as PATH Director

When I was appointed Director of California PATH in summer 2003, it was with the specific mandate to help re-structure the research center, to align more closely with the objectives of our main sponsor, Caltrans. The re-organized PATH includes four research programs: Traffic Operations, Transit Operations, Traffic Safety and Policy. The reason for this restructuring was to provide a more direct...

Dedicated to My Whole Family, Especially My Mother, My Husband and My Children

To My Dear Parents , & To My Lovely Mahsa

Acknowledgement Although developing Aryan was my dissertation project, I had the advantage of having many people by my side without whom this wouldn't have been possible. Hereby, I would like to acknowledge each of their contributions in the process. Professor Cynthia Breazeal is the first person I owe my deepest appreciation to. She had a major role to get this project up and running. When I f...

To my dear parents and to my lovely wife

The research reported in this thesis proposes, designs and tests the Quality-Oriented Adaptation Scheme (QOAS), an application-level adaptive scheme that offers high quality multimedia services to home residences and business premises via local broadband IP-networks in the presence of other traffic of different types. QOAS uses a novel client-located grading scheme that maps some network-relate...