Floris van bruegel biography of william

Floris van Breugel earned his Ph. Dickinson on insect flight biomechanics, control, and multi-sensory integration. He subsequently went to the University of Washington to work with Jeff Riffell and J Nathan Kutz as a postdoc to work on insect search strategies and machine learning approaches to system identification of complex systems, supported by a Sackler Fellowship in Biophysics and a Moore-Sloan-WRF Fellowship in DataScience.

Floris joined the Dept. I am currently hiring motivated undergraduates and Ph. We study insects for inspiration in designing robust and novel control systems for robots. Our lab uses real-time tracking, high speed video, and virtual reality to study freely moving animals.

Floris van Breugel's scientific research.

Then, aided by modern machine learning tools and control theory, we analyze the behavior, and implement the principles on robotic systems. Along the way, we use genetic tools available in the fruit fly to gain insight into how brains function. Prospective graduate students I am currently hiring motivated undergraduates and Ph. Learn more about our graduate programs.

Research interests We study insects for inspiration in designing robust and novel control systems for robots. Selected publications Flies Distinct activity-gated pathways mediate attraction and aversion to CO2 in Drosophila. Superhydrophobic diving flies Ephydra hians and the hypersaline waters of Mono Lake. Mosquitoes use vision to associate odor plumes with thermal targets.

Current Biology. Plume-Tracking behavior of flying Drosophila emerges from a set of distinct sensory-motor reflexes.