Robert M. Miura

Robert M. Miura is Professor of Mathematical Sciences and of Biomedical Engineering at the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT). The Department of Mathematical Sciences (DMS) is located in the College of Science and Liberal Arts (CSLA) at NJIT.

The Department of Mathematical Sciences at NJIT has ten active mathematical biologists, comprising the largest group of math biologists in a mathematics department in North America. Seven of these math biologists focus their research on computational neuroscience, including two whose research is on the electrophysiology of the nervous system. Graduate students in DMS can earn a Ph.D. degree in mathematical sciences, with an emphasis in the field of computational biology. Undergraduate students in mathematical sciences can earn a B.S. degree in mathematical sciences and are given the opportunity to conduct leading edge research.

Education

M.S.
M.S.
M.A.
Ph.D.

University of California, Berkeley (1960)
University of California, Berkeley (1962)
Princeton University (1964)
Princeton University (1966)

Research Interests

H. Huang, J.J. Wylie, R.M. Miura, and P. Howell, “On the formation of glass microelectrodes”, SIAM J. Appl. Math. 67 (2007), 630-666.

J.J. Wylie, H. Huang, and R.M. Miura, "Thermal instability in drawing viscous threads", J. Fluid Mech., 570 (2007), 1-16.

J.J. Wylie and R.M. Miura, "Traveling waves in coupled reaction-diffusion models with degenerate sources", Phys. Rev. E, 74 (2006), 021909 (and in Virtual J. Biological Phys. Res., August 15, 2006).

Y. Cheng, R.M. Miura, and B. Tian, "Prediction of mRNA polyadenylation sites by support vector machine", Bioinformatics, 22 (2006), 2320-2325.

B. Steinberg, Y. Wang, H. Huang, and R.M. Miura, “Spatial buffering mechanism: Mathematical model and computer simulations”, Math. Biosci. and Engin., 2 (2005), 675-702.

M. Toda and R.M. Miura, “Nonlinear toys” in Encyclopedia of Nonlinear Science edited by A.C. Scott, Routledge, Taylor and Francis, New York, (2005), pp. 645-647.

S. Reinker, E. Puil, and R.M. Miura, “Membrane resonance and stochastic resonance modulate firing patterns of thalamocortical neurons”, J. Comp. Neurosci., 16 (2004), 15-25.

I. Ran, R.M. Miura, and E. Puil, “Spermine modulates neuronal excitability and NMDA receptors in juvenile gerbil auditory thalamus”, Hearing Res., 176 (2003), 65-79.

Y.X. Li, Y.Q. Wang, and R.M. Miura, “Clustering in small networks of excitatory neurons with heterogeneous coupling strengths”, J. Comp. Neurosci., 14, (2003), 139-159.

S. Reinker, E. Puil, and R.M. Miura, “Stochastic and suprathreshold resonances in a stochastic Hindmarsh-Rose model of thalamic neurons”, Bull. Math. Biol., 65 (2003), 641-663.

H. Huang, R.M. Miura, W. Ireland, and E. Puil, “Heat-induced stretching of a glass tube under tension: Application to glass microelectrodes”, SIAM J. Appl. Math., 63 (2003), 1499-1519.

A.E. Desjardins, Y.-X. Li, S. Reinker, R.M. Miura, and R. Neuman, “The influences of I_h on temporal summation in hippocampal CA1 pyramidal neurons: A modeling study”, J. Comp. Neurosci., 15 (2003), 131-142.