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Senior Group Leader
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Biography
Michael studied Electrical and Computer Engineering and even did a brief stint in industry. As a graduate student, Michael switched from robotics to neuroscience and has never looked back. He seeks to understand how brains transform sensory information and past experience into diverse behaviors. His lab uses behavioral, imaging, electrophysiological, and computational techniques to crack the neural circuits that support vision and navigation in Drosophila.
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Education
BS, Electrical engineering, University of Florida
BS, Computer engineering, University of Florida
MS, Electrical engineering, University of California Berkeley
PhD, Computation and Neural Systems, California Insitute of Technology
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