Dr. Rosangela Follmann
Assistant Professor of Computer Science
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WIH Williams Hall 17g
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- About
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Biography
Rosangela Follmann is an Assistant Professor in the School of Information Technology. She received her Ph.D in Applied Computing from the National Institute for Space Research, Brazil. Before joining School of IT she did two years of postdoctoral research in the Department of Physics at Northwestern University, and two more years as postdoc at the School of Biological Sciences at ISU. Much of her work has been on developing methods and algorithms for data analysis, information processing, pattern recognition, and prediction of behaviors in the fields of nonlinear dynamics and neuroscience.
Current Courses
IT 499.004 Independent Research For The Master's Thesis
IT 386.001 Introduction to Networking and Parallel and Distributed Computing
IT 386.002 Introduction to Networking and Parallel and Distributed Computing
IT 388.001 Parallel Processing
IT 487.001 Parallel Processing
Research Interests & Areas
Computational Neuroscience,
Reservoir Computing/Machine learning,
High Performance Computing/Parallel processing,
Data analysis
School of IT Faculty Research Award
School of IT
2024
CAST Outstanding Researcher Award (Pre-tenure category)
College of Applied Science and Technology
2023
University Research Initiative Award
Illinois State University
2023
Grants and Contracts
Computational framework to study temperature induced seizures
Rosangela Follmann.
URG, College of Applied Science and Technology. July 2024 - June 2025
Development of a framework to identify brain activity patterns during task execution
Rosangela Follmann.
SRG, School of Information Technology. July 2023 - June 2024
Development of a framework to identify brain activity patterns during task execution
Rosangela Follmann.
URG, College of Applied Science and Technology. July 2023 - June 2024
Approach for early detection of seizures using EEG data
Rosangela Follmann.
URG, College of Science and Applied Technology. July 2022 - May 2023
Hybrid Approach for Improved Performance in Machine Learning
Rosangela Follmann.
URG, College of Applied Science and Technology. 2021 - 2022
Conference Proceeding
Phase Synchronization in Brain Collective Dynamics
Rosangela Follmann, Gangadhar Katuri, Epaminondas Rosa.
Association for Computing Machinery, 7, (2023), https://doi.org/10.1145/3584371.3613012
Journal Article
Temperature effects on neuronal synchronization in seizures
Rosangela Follmann, Twinkle Jaswal, George Jacob, Jonas Oliveira, Carter Herbert, Elbert EN Macau, Epaminondas Rosa.
Chaos, AIP Publishing, 34 (8), 083141, (2024), https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0219836
Computational and Experimental Modulation of a Noisy Chaotic Neuronal System
Josselyn Gonzalez, Rosangela Follmann, Epaminondas Rosa, Wolfgang Stein.
Chaos, (33), 033109, (2023), https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0130874
Quantitative description of neuronal calcium dynamics in C. elegans’ thermoreception
Zach Mobille, Rosangela Follmann, Andres Vidal-Gadea, Epaminondas Rosa.
Biosystems, Elsevier, 223, 104814, (2023), 10.1016/j.biosystems.2022.104814
The relationship between sentiment score and COVID-19 cases in the United States
Troung Jack Luu, Rosangela Follmann.
Journal of Information Science, (2022), https://doi.org/10.1177/01655515211068167
Analog implementation of a Hodgkin-Huxley model neuron
George Rutherford, Zachary Mobille, Jordan Brandt-Trainer, Rosangela Follmann, Epaminondas Rosa.
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICS, 88 (11), 918-923, (2020), 10.1119/10.0001072
Predicting slow and fast neuronal dynamics with machine learning
Rosangela Follmann, Rosa, Epaminondas, Jr..
CHAOS, 29 (11), (2019), 10.1063/1.5119723
Temperature effects on neuronal firing rates and tonic-to-bursting transitions
Manuela Burek, Rosangela Follmann, Epaminondas Rosa.
BIOSYSTEMS, 180, 1-6, (2019), 10.1016/j.biosystems.2019.03.003
Multimodal sensory information is represented by a combinatorial code in a sensorimotor system
Rosangela Follmann, Christopher John Goldsmith, Wolfgang Stein.
PLOS Biology, 16 (10), e2004527, (2018), 10.1371/journal.pbio.2004527
Synchronous tonic-to-bursting transitions in a neuronal hub motif
Rosangela Follmann, Annabelle Shaffer, Zachary Mobille, George Rutherford, Epaminondas Rosa.
CHAOS, 28 (10), (2018), 10.1063/1.5039880
A critical firing rate associated with tonic-to-bursting transitions in synchronized gap-junction coupled neurons
Annabelle Shaffer, Rosangela Follmann, Allison Lynn Harris, Svetlana Postnova, Hans Braun, Rosa, Epaminondas, Jr..
EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL-SPECIAL TOPICS, 226 (9), 1939-1951, (2017), 10.1140/epjst/e2017-70024-6
Experimental phase synchronization detection in non-phase coherent chaotic systems by using the discrete complex wavelet approach
Maria Teodora Ferreira, Rosangela Follmann, Margarete O. Domingues, Macau, Elbert E. N., Istvan Z. Kiss.
CHAOS, 27 (8), (2017), 10.1063/1.4999908
Spatial distribution of intermingling pools of projection neurons with distinct targets: A 3D analysis of the commissural ganglia in Cancer borealis
Rosangela Follmann, Christopher John Goldsmith, Wolfgang Stein.
JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE NEUROLOGY, 525 (8), 1827-1843, (2017), 10.1002/cne.24161
Bifurcation transitions in gap-junction-coupled neurons
Annabelle Shaffer, Allison Lynn Harris, Rosangela Follmann, Rosa, Epaminondas, Jr..
PHYSICAL REVIEW E, 94 (4), (2016), 10.1103/PhysRevE.94.042301
Dynamics of signal propagation and collision in axons
Rosangela Follmann, Rosa, Epaminondas, Jr., Wolfgang Stein.
PHYSICAL REVIEW E, 92 (3), (2015), 10.1103/PhysRevE.92.032707
Phase Oscillatory Network and Visual Pattern Recognition
Rosangela Follmann, Macau, Elbert E. N., Rosa, Epaminondas, Jr., Piqueira, Jose R. C..
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON NEURAL NETWORKS AND LEARNING SYSTEMS, 26 (7), 1539-1544, (2015), 10.1109/TNNLS.2014.2345572
Phase detection of chaos
Rosangela Follmann, Macau, Elbert E. N., Rosa, Epaminondas, Jr..
PHYSICAL REVIEW E, 83 (1), (2011), 10.1103/PhysRevE.83.016209
Presentations
Photosensitivity and Neuronal Synchronization
Twinkle Jaswal, Rosangela Follmann, Epaminondas Rosa.
SIAM Conference on Applications of Dynamical Systems, Denver, CO, May, 2025
Temperature Effects on Seizures
Rosangela Follmann.
SIAM Conference on Applications of Dynamical Systems, Denver, CO, May, 2025
COMPUTATIONAL AND EXPERIMENTAL TRANSITIONS IN NEURONAL STATES
Rosangela Follmann.
Applied Mathematics and Computational Sciences Seminar Series, Iowa City, IA, April 15, 2024
Phase Synchronization in Brain Collective Dynamics
Rosangela Follmann.
14th ACM Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, and Health Informatics (ACM BCB), Houston, TX, September, 2023
Data Driven Model Applied to Neuronal Dynamics
Rosangela Follmann.
SIAM Conference on Applications of Dynamical Systems, Portland, OR, May, 2023
Detecting synchronization in brain activity
Gangadhar Katuri, Epaminondas Rosa, Rosangela Follmann.
BCB '22: Proceedings of the 13th ACM International Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology and Health Informatics, Northbrook, IL, August, 2022
Reservoir Computing: Structure analysis and dynamics predictability
Rosangela Follmann, Cassie Mcginnis, Gangadhar Katuri, Epaminondas Rosa.
APS March Meeting 2022, Chicago, IL, March, 2022
Using Reservoir Computing for Predicting Slow and Fast Neuronal Dynamics
Rosangela Follmann, Epaminondas Rosa.
SIAM Conference on Applications of Dynamical Systems, Online, May, 2021