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Incoming assistant prof @Tufts ME | JSMF postdoc fellow @Princeton MAE | Collective Behaviors, Fluids & Robotics | Alum @UPenn & @GeorgiaTech

Princeton, NJ
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RT @phybiofunc: Congratulations Trevor!
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Organizers: Yangfan Zhang and I.Confirmed speakers (sort by last name): Saad Bhamla, Michael C., Danielle Chase, Ty Hedrick, Roy Harpaz, Arnold Mathijssen, Nina Mohebbi, Di Ni, Ashley Peterson, and Steven Portugal.
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Call for contributions to our symposium on animal collective movement in complex environments at SICB 2026 in Portland, OR! Submit your abstract to our complementary sessions and join us for two days of fun exchanging research on biomechanics and energetics of animal movement!
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RT @SciReports: Beyond planar: fish schools adopt ladder formations in 3D.
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Scientific Reports - Beyond planar: fish schools adopt ladder formations in 3D
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RT @oritpeleg: 📣 Looking for a creative postdoc with strong computational skills! . Be our go-to person for building simple but powerful s….
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RT @FishInTheNews: New study - Beyond planar: fish schools adopt ladder formations in 3D. Ko, H., Girma, A., Zhang, Y. et al. Beyond plana….
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I had a lot of fun transitioning from playing with fire ants 🐜 in my PhD to experimenting with live fish 🐠! Hopefully, my other projects during the postdoc, one on fish robots and another on the vibration of dead fish, will be out soon too.
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The ladder formation could provide fish schools hydrodynamic benefits similar to the diamond formation, but further research is required. We are also excited about future research adopting our computer vision pipelines to research internal structures of other fishes and in nature.
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While fish constantly rearranged in three dimensions as we often observe in aquariums and nature, our data showed that fish prefer a vertically-staggered formation, we called "ladder formation". This formation has never been characterized before but appeared in 79% of fish pairs.
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We recorded 3D fish schools swimming in uniform water flow for ten hours at a time and tracked their relative positions. We found that fish rarely adopt the classical diamond formation, less than 0.1% of the time!
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A classical work in 1975 suggested that a planar "diamond" formation is the most hydrodynamically efficient, and still shapes the direction of the fish school research today. Half a century later, we decided to test this hypothesis, using cutting-edge computer vision techniques.
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Have you ever wondered about how fish self-organize in 3D? Due to reasons, experimental and theoretical research of fish schools has been limited to planar formations.
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I am excited to share that my first postdoc research paper is out!! Thanks to the great collaboration with Radhika Nagpal and Abigail Girma at @EPrinceton and @georgelauder, Yangfan Zhang, and Yu Pan at @HarvardOEB .
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Easier to make connections: I could tap on the shoulders and ask my colleagues to grab a drink at conferences leading up to the job cycle. I can find mentorship from both male and female professors more easily.
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Easier to find social fit: Everybody in my zoom interviews was male. Most on the search committee were male. Most departments had few women.
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I'm thrilled to embark on this new chapter of my academic career at @TuftsUniversity . I look forward to collaborating with researchers at Tufts and beyond to continue to advance the frontiers of robotics, biomechanics, and collective behavior.
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Our goal: robotic swarms capable of adapting to and exploring unstructured underwater ecosystems, from coral reefs to kelp forests.
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My future lab, the Kollective Organization Lab (KOLab!), will explore the mechanical interaction within biological collectives like fish schools and develop robotics swarms that harness mechanical intelligence for self-organization.
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