Registration is closed for the 2025 BISCCITs Workshop at the University of Colorado- Boulder, June 16th - 18th 2025
Monday, August 5, 2024
17:30 Poster session- Posters, Pizzas, and Pints
Tuesday, August 6, 2024
17:00 Poster session - Curry and Curiosity
"Pretectal neurons responsive to global visual motion differ in direction selectivity across speeds"
Doug Altshuler, Faculty, University of British Columbia
"Engineered mechanosensors for flight"
Sarah Bergbreiter, Faculty, Carnegie Mellon University
"BIRD Lab Research Overview"
Kaleb Bordner, Graduate student, University of California Davis
"Neural representations of distributed vision in the eyed chiton Acanthopleura granulata"
Daniel Chappell, Industry scientist, SAIC
“Functional organization of the haltere sensory afferents”
Serene Dhawan, Graduate student, Princeton Neuroscience Institute
"Wing singing: The interdependency of mosquito acoustics and aerodynamics"
Marcos Georgiades, Graduate student, Royal Veterinary College
“Sparse Sensor Placement Optimization for Flight-by-Feel with Artificial Hair Sensors”
Alex Hollenbeck, Graduate student, US Air Force Institute of Technology
“Bifurcation Theory of Latch Mediated Spring Actuated System (LaMSA) in Biology and Robotics”
Nak-seung Hyun, Faculty, Purdue University
"Ocelli and Mode Sensing Hypothesis"
Anthony Javier, Research scientist, University of Colorado Boulder
“Towards autonomy for insect-scale robots”
Kaushik Jayaram, Faculty, University of Colorado Boulder
“Liking brain to behaviour in the dung beetle compass”
Linneá Jurgensen, Graduate student, NTNU Norway
“Neural network models of spatial orientation and sensorimotor transformation of Drosophila”
Chung-Chuan Lo, Faculty, National Tsing Hua University
“Design of an insect scale Robophysical cockroach antenna with Integrated sensing for model validation and tactile navigation”
Parker McDonnell, Graduate student, University of Colorado Boulder
“Robust intelligence in flapping-wing flight”
Jean-Michel Mongeau, Faculty, Penn State University
“Distributed sensing in color-changing skin as a potential mechanism of sensory feedback”
Lydia Naughton, Graduate student, University of North Carolina Wilmington
"Reference-Point Formation in Hover-Feeding Hawkmoths"
Varun Sharma, Graduate student, Georgia Tech
“Biohyrid Volatile Sensing Platform Leveraging Manduca sexta Antenna”
Elisabeth Steel, Industry scientist, AFRL/BlueHalo
“The optomotor response depends on motion direction and varies across the visual field during hovering flight in hummingbirds”
Jo Theriault, Graduate student, University of British Columbia
“Following the Wind with a Whisker Sensor”
TJ Thomas, Graduate student, CMU
“Bird-Inspired Energy Gain Manoeuvre Discovery in Structured Urban Airflows”
Freddie Turner, Graduate student, Bristol Robotics Laboratory
"Strain sensing on dragonfly wings"
Myriam Uhrhan, Postdoc, Imperial College London
"Brain-inspired real-time learning for robotic applications"
Matthew Yedutenko, Postdoc, TU Delft, MAVLab
"Efficient bio-inspired vision in robotics"
Rui Zhou, Graduate student, Imperial College London