News

• 2026 — We published a system for recording both behavior and muscle activities in freely walking flies at high resolution. This is enabled by dense pose estimation that requires no human labels.

• 2026 — Check out our review article on neuromechanical digital twins.

• 2024 — Check out our work on fly muscle modeling and simulation, led by Gizem Özdil and Chuanfang Ning.

• 2024 — HabiTerre, where I served as CRO in its first two years, completes Series A fundraising.

• 2024 — We organized a workshop on NeuroMechFly at the SfN 2024 meeting.

• 2023 — Fruit fly digital twin: NeuroMechFly v2 is a framework for simulating embodied sensorimotor control in adult Drosophila.
  • 2024 update: Now published in Nature Methods.
• 2023 — Descending neuron networks: Our study on how networks of descending neurons transform command-like signals into population-based behavioral control.
  • 2024 update: Now published in Nature.

• 2022 — Awarded a Boehringer Ingelheim Fonds PhD fellowship, providing stipend and travel allowances for ~2.5 years of my PhD.

• 2021 — Started my PhD at the Neuroengineering Laboratory at EPFL.