Floris van Breugel, PhD

Floris is an assistant professor at the University of Nevada, Reno. He runs the flies, robots, and data lab in Palmer Engineering 106. Floris is interested in biomechanics, controls, neuroscience, data, system identification, moving sensors, complex behavior, ecology, and data visualization. When not studying flies, programming robots, or analyzing data, you’ll find him in deserts or on mountains, on foot, skis, ropes, or bikes.

Current Lab Members

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Austin Lopez

Austin is a PhD student in Mechanical Engineering, building a new kind of wind tunnel for studying how insects explore windy environments.

Arunava Nag

Arunava is a PhD student Mechanical Engineering, and is working on measuring real world chemical plumes at large spatial scales and developing algorithms to track them.

David (Stanley) Stupski

David is a postdoc working to understand the temporal importance of olfactory cues on flies using optogenetic tools.

Toha Elahi

Toha is a Mechanical Engineering PhD student working on developing algorithms for odor plume tracking.

Jaleesa Houle

Jaleesa is a Mechanical Engineering PhD student working on understanding natural wind dynamics, and how they impact insect plume tracking behaviors.

Andy Tan

Andy is an undergraduate student working on autonomous drone flight.

Burak Boyacioglu

Burak is a postdoc working on nonlinear observability related to insect and drone state estimation.

Ben Cellini

Ben is a postdoc working on bioinspired state estimation strategies for flying UAVs.

Kaylee Jamison

Kaylee is an undergraduate student working on insect olfaction.

Former Lab Members

Undergraduates

Andrew James
Renan Jewell
Ethan Swierski
Mehar Mangat
Carmela Hailey
Nehal Mangat
Marlee Montella,
Zack Dugan
Milen Kumar

Graduate students

Florian McLelland (MS Mech Eng)