NIFTI’s research team involves faculty from Case Western Reserve University, Carnegie Mellon University, Johns Hopkins University, the University of Colorado Boulder, the University of Maryland, and the University of Washington. Additional partners of our NIFTI faculty include researchers at Imperial College, University of Bristol, University of Sussex and Oxford University in the U.K., Lund University in Sweden, and the US Air Force Research Laboratory at Eglin Air Force Base.
Case Western Reserve University
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Research area
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Carnegie Mellon University
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Name
Department
Research area
Psychological and Brain Sciences
Multisensory integration guiding behavioral decision processes and flight control
Psychological and Brain Sciences
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University of Colorado Boulder
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Department
Research area
Mechanical Engineering
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University of Maryland
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Department
Research area
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Tradeoffs between performance and resources in natural and engineered systems
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Neuromorphic analog VLSI design, sensorimotor neural computation, robotics
Institute for Systems Research
Sensorimotor specializations for complex flight behaviors in animals
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University of Washington
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Department
Research area
Mechanical Engineering
Dimensionality reduction, sparse sensing, fluid dynamics, machine learning

Mechanical Engineering
Insect-sized robotics, flight control in insects, millimeter-scale fabrication
Electrical and Computer Engineering, Computer Science & Engineering
Wireless power transfer, ultra-low-power communication, and biological applications
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