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The brains behind the Agile Systems Lab.

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Forays into the world of movement.

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News from the lab.

 

We’re excited to welcome Jiangkun to the lab! He is joining us to work as a Postdoc.
Congratulations to Dr. Yash Sondhi on his new position at Case Western Reserve University! We look forward to seeing him continue his studies of moth visual evolution.
Congratulations to Dr. Leo Wood for successfully defending his thesis and completing his Ph.D! The lab is excited to support him in his new role as a Postdoc at Princeton University.
Congratulations to Dr. Varun Sharma for successfully defending his thesis and completing his Ph.D! The lab is extremely proud of him and excited for his next role at Georgia Tech.
Congratulations to Dr. Ethan Wold for successfully defending his thesis and completing his Ph.D! The lab is excited to support him in his new role as a Postdoc at the University of Chicago.
Welcome Yaqing Wang to the lab! He is joining us to work as a Postdoc after recieving his Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University. His past research has focused on cockroach locomotion.
Welcome visiting summer students! Joanna Baker, Jean-Baptiste Bwirayesu , and Lucas Marsh are visiting from beyond Georgia Tech to conduct research in the lab!
We are excited to announce the start of the new Integrative Movement Sciences Institute – a 6-year NSF funded biological integration institute led in collaboration with Monica Daley, Kiisa Nishikawa, Anne Silverman, and Jill McNItt-Gray.
Congratulations to Prof. Jordanna Sprayberry on her NSF Mid-Career Award. Jordanna will be collaborating with the Agile Systems Lab as a visiting scientist for the next three years!
Welcome Yash Sondhi to the lab! He is joining us to work as a Postdoc after his Ph.D. from the University of Florida. His past research has focused on moth visual sensing.
Congratulations to Dr. Usama Bin Sikandar for successfully defending his thesis and completing his Ph.D! The lab is extremely proud and thankful for his work. We now welcome him as a Postdoc in the lab!
Congratulations to Dr. Joy Putney and Dr. Megan Matthews for successfully defending their thesis and completing their PhDs!!! The lab is extremely proud of both of them.
Congratulations to Dr.Travis Tune and Dr.Jeff Gau for successfully defending their thesis and completing their PhDs!!! The lab is extremely proud of both of them.
The Agile Systems Lab welcomes Marc Gausch as our new research technician. Marc is a physicist specializing in fluids. Welcome Marc!
The Georgia Tech Physics of Living Systems Student Research Network Node from the NSF has been renewed for another five years!
The Agile Systems Lab received new funding from the Klingenstein-Simons Fellowship in the Neurosciences Program.
Congratulations to Dr. Brett Aiello who received a NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship to conduct research utilizing museum collections. Go Brett!
The wishes Brandon and Martha the best on their next adventures in graduate school.
Congrats to Steven and Rachel who will be starting graduate school at UCSD (Mech. Eng.) and Emory (Neuro.) starting in the fall.
Congratulations to Joy, Rachel, and Megan on receiving NSF graduate research fellowships!
The Agile Systems Lab was awarded an NSF Career Grant.
Congratulations to Usama on his graduation!
New funding support from ARO’s DURIP program for flow visualization studies.
Simon is a guest on WREK’s black box “Science, but funnier” program.
The new Agile Systems Lab website is up!
Congratulations to Travis for advancing to Ph.D. candidacy!