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Research

Research Areas:

Collective behavior

Sensing and decision-making

Ecological dynamics

AI & machine learning for scientific inference

Recent Publications

Informational constraints on predator-prey interactions. Oikos.

Fast behavioral feedbacks make ecosystems sensitive to pace and not just magnitude of environmental change. PNAS.

An algorithmic approach to natural behavior. Current Biology.

Information limitation and the dynamics of coupled ecological systems. Nature Ecology & Evolution.

Recent Funding

NOAA: Machine vision tools for underwater imagery

NSF: Flexibility and robustness of attack and evasion behavior

CDFW: Coupled biological-hydrological modeling of fish migrations

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