(Peleg, Orit - 2023) -- Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) uri icon

Overview

description

  • Fireflies' elegant, distributed communication systems could eventually help us with our own telecommunications through new ideas about compressing information and distributed networks.

    Assistant Professor of computer science Orit Peleg has just received $900,000 over the next five years to learn how fireflies in a swarm synchronize their lighting displays. The funding was provided by a National Science Foundation CAREER award, a highly prestigious early-career grant for junior faculty members.

    Peleg, a member of the Biofrontiers Institute and Department of Computer Science, seeks to create testable theories about animal communication with her lab by merging tools from physics, biology, math and computer science.

year awarded

  • 2023