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About the Lab
We are a research group at Rutgers University studying collective intelligence across biological and engineered systems.
Our research focuses on:
- Collective behavior in animal groups, including how fish schools coordinate, explore, and make decisions.
- Dynamics and control of network systems, with an emphasis on modeling, stability, inference, and coordination.
- Bio-inspired robotics and autonomous systems, where principles from natural collectives inform the design of scalable robotic teams.
- Data-driven discovery, combining experiments, mathematical models, and machine learning to uncover mechanisms of collective behavior.
Together, we aim to understand how intelligent group behavior emerges in nature and how these principles can be translated into engineered systems.
News
Modeling collective decision-making in network systems
Fresh off the press: new paper! Inspired by biological insights from fish schools, we introduce a model for collective decision-making for network systems. Think of everyday situations like: – a … Read More
Ph.D. Opportunity (Fully Funded – Spring 2026)
The Swarm Intelligence Lab at Rutgers University invites applications for one fully funded Ph.D. position in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering to work on data-driven modeling of fish … Read More
New paper out! Collective intermittent exploration in fish schools
Collective intermittent exploration in fish schools is mediated by visual cues Proud of my student, Deze Liu, for helping uncover new insights into the sensory and collective foundations of animal … Read More
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- 11/2021: Poster presentation at the Animal Behavior Live Conference [watch video]
- 09/2021: Can emotions propagate in a group of fish? check out our new study on emotional contagion [read]
- 05/2021: I will be chairing the Biological Systems session at the ACC [link]
- 05/2021: I will be chairing the session on Control at the SIAM-DS [link]
- 02/2021: Our recent work on modeling fish swimming in a flow is out in PLoS-CB! [read]
- 09/2020: Our K-12 ARISE student participated in the Student Vision Challenge and was selected to talk at the Submerge Marine Science Festival [watch video]
- 03/2020: Check our recent work on how human decisions can be controlled by virtual bots! [read more]
- 01/2020: Our work on leader-follower consensus on heterogeneous networks is featured on NYU engineering news! [read more]
- 12/2019: Our recent work on the synchronization in multiplex electrical networks is out! [read more]
- 10/2019: Our recent work on data-driven modeling of zebrafish behavior has been accepted in the journal of theoretical biology [read more]
- 08/2019: Our latest paper on network topology identification is out! [read more]
- 03/2019: I am honored to have been selected for the Provost postdoctoral fellowship program at New York University [link]. I will be working on fish collective behavior!
- 03/2019: Our new paper on distributed inference of the network topology is out! [read more]
- 05/2018: Happy to have been selected for receiving the YITP scholarship, Florence, Italy