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Cameron Chalk

Cameron Chalk

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Cameron Chalk

Postdoctoral Scholar in the DNA and Natural Algorithms group at Caltech

E-mail: ctchalk2 ατ gmail.com / ctchalk ατ caltech.edu

Publications

[abc] indicates alphabetical author ordering as theoretical computer science convention

[*] indicates equal contribution

Programming and Training Rate-Independent Chemical Reaction Networks

Marko Vasic*, Cameron Chalk*, Austin Luchsinger, Sarfraz Khurshid, David Soloveichik

  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol. 119, no. 24, 2022

Deep Molecular Programming: A Natural Implementation of Binary-Weight ReLU Neural Networks

Marko Vasic, Cameron Chalk, Sarfraz Khurshid, David Soloveichik

  • Proceedings of the 37th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2020), 2020

SIMD||DNA: Single Instruction, Multiple Data Computation with DNA Strand Displacement Cascades

Boya Wang*, Cameron Chalk*, David Soloveichik

  • (Best Student Paper Award) Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on DNA Computing and Molecular Programming (DNA25), 2019

Self Assembly of Any Shape with Constant Tile Types using High Temperature

[abc] Cameron Chalk, Austin Luchsinger, Robert Schweller, Tim Wylie

  • Proceedings of the 26th Annual European Symposium on Algorithms(ESA 2018), 2018

Freezing Simulates Non-freezing Tile Automata

[abc] Cameron Chalk, Austin Luchsinger, Eric Martinez, Robert Schweller, Andrew Winslow, Tim Wylie

  • Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on DNA Computing and Molecular Programming (DNA24), 2018

Programming Substrate-Independent Kinetic Barriers with Thermodynamic Binding Networks

[abc] Keenan Breik, Cameron Chalk, David Doty, David Haley, David Soloveichik

  • IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, vol. 18, no. 1, pp. 283-295, 1 Jan.-Feb. 2021
  • Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Computational Methods in Systems Biology (CMSB 2018), 2018

Composable Rate-Independent Computation in Continuous Chemical Reaction Networks

[abc] Cameron Chalk, Niels Kornerup, Wyatt Reeves, David Soloveichik

  • IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, vol. 18, no. 1, pp. 250-260, 1 Jan.-Feb. 2021
  • (Best Paper Award) Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Computational Methods in Systems Biology (CMSB 2018), 2018

Thermodynamically Favorable Computation via Tile Self-Assembly

[abc] Cameron Chalk, Jacob Hendricks, Matthew J. Patitz, Michael Sharp

  • Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Unconventional Computation and Natural Computation (UCNC 2018), 2018

Optimal Staged Self-Assembly of Linear Assemblies

[abc] Cameron Chalk, Eric Martinez, Robert Schweller, Luis Vega, Andrew Winslow, Tim Wylie

  • Natural Computing 18, 527–548 (2019).
  • Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Unconventional Computation and Natural Computation (UCNC 2018) Fontainebleau, 2018

Universal Shape Replicators via Self-Assembly with Attractive and Repulsive Forces

[abc] Cameron Chalk, Erik D. Demaine, Martin L. Demaine, Eric Martinez, Robert Schweller, Luis Vega, Tim Wylie

  • Proceedings of the 28th Annual ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms (SODA 2017) Barcelona, Spain, January 16-19, 2017

Optimal Staged Self-Assembly of General Shapes

[abc] Cameron Chalk, Eric Martinez, Robert Schweller, Luis Vega, Andrew Winslow, Tim Wylie

  • Algorithmica, Volume 80, Issue 4, 2018, pp 1383-1409
  • Proceedings of the 24th Annual European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA 2016) Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark, August 22-26, 2016
  • Slides of talk given at ESA 2016

Concentration Independent Random Number Generation in Tile Self-Assembly

[abc] Cameron Chalk, Bin Fu, Eric Martinez, Robert T. Schweller, Tim Wylie

  • Theoretical Computer Science, Volume 667, March 8, 2017, pp 1-15

Flipping Tiles: Concentration Independent Coin Flips in Tile Self-Assembly

[abc] Cameron Chalk, Bin Fu, Alejandro Huerta, Mario A. Maldonado, Eric Martinez, Robert T. Schweller, Tim Wylie

  • Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on DNA Computing and Molecular Programming (DNA21), 2015
  • Slides of talk given at DNA21

Strict Self-Assembly of Fractals using Multiple Hands

[abc] Cameron Chalk, Dominic A. Fernandez, Alejandro Huerta, Mario A. Maldonado, Robert T. Schweller, Leslie Sweet

  • Algorithmica, Volume 76, Issue 1, September 2016, pp 195-224