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Our multidisciplinary team is composed of six PIs. Three systems neurophysiology labs combine their expertise in parsing complex visual scenes, multimodal sensory binding and neurogenetics, and sensorimotor integration and control. They align efforts with shared experimental frameworks and synergistic datasets. The team will leverage innovative methods bridging dynamical systems and deep learning, generative perception models and neuromorphic control, and network architectures to establish a FLAP framework for integrating decision and control.

Principal Investigators

Simon Sponberg (team lead)

Glen Robinson Professor in Complex Systems
School of Physics
School of Biological Sciences
Georgia Institute of Technology
sponberg@gatech.edu

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Silvia Ferrari

John Brancaccio Professor
Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Cornell University
ferrari@cornell.edu

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Vahid Tarokh

Rhodes Family Professor
School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Duke University
vahid.tarokh@duke.edu

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Jeff Riffell

Endowed Professor for Excellence in Biology
Department of Biology
University of Washington
jriffell@uw.edu

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Hannah Choi

Assistant Professor
School of Mathematics
Georgia Institute of Technology
hannahch@gatech.edu

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Jamie Theobald

Associate Professor
School of Biological Sciences
Florida International University
theobald@fiu.edu

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Faculty Affiliates

Jordanna Sprayberry

Muhlenberg College

Grant Coordinator

Victoria Wood

Georgia Institute of Technology

Post-Docs

Anand Patil

University of Washington

Pramod KC

University of Washington

Yaqing Wang

Georgia Institute of Technology

Soon Ho Kim

Georgia Institute of Technology

Yash Sondhi

Georgia Institute of Technology

Hewenxuan (Vincent) Li

Cornell University

Graduate Students

Ruchao Qian

Florida International University

Ben Doshna

Georgia Institute of Technology

Haoming Yang

Duke University

Xinyu Fang

Cornell University

Zihao Wu

Duke University

Abdelrahman “Abdo” Sharafeldin

Georgia Institute of Technology

Junyi Liao

Duke University

Debopriya “DG” Ghosh

Georgia Institute of Technology

Alex Wang

Georgia Instutute of Technology

Leo Wood

Georgia Institute of Technology

Varun Sharma

Georgia Institute of Technology

Zach Mobille

Georgia Institute of Technology

Second Lt. Matthew LaRosa

Duke University

Akash Meesa

Cornell University

Scientific Staff

Jake Miller

Georgia Institute of Technology

 

Veronica Sills

Georgia Institute of Technology

 

Undergraduates

Veronica Muzio

Florida International University

Joanna Baker

Stanford

Karrah Hayes

Georgia Institute of Technology

Elliot Huang

Georgia Institute of Technology

Steeve Pierre

Florida International University

Many other undergraduate students work with us on our VIP Team! 

Alumni

Usama Sikandar

Georgia Institute of Technology

Sam Fabian

Florida International University

Junrong Lin

Duke University

Suya Wu

Duke University

Saksham Kaushik

Hengye Yang

Brett Aiello

Kelimar Diaz

R. Keating Godfrey

Florida International University

Elina Barredo

Florida International University

Mahir Patel

Panyu Chen

Aleksandra Cholewinska

Rachel Conn

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