Michelle Hickner
@michellehickner.bsky.social
Teaching faculty at University of Washington in Seattle, Washington. Interests include engineering higher education, machine learning for engineering control systems, and animal flight 🦋 🐝 🦅.
🧵 New preprint led by @bingbrunton.bsky.social, @elliottabe.bsky.social, @lawrencehu.bsky.social We gave a worm brain control of a fly body and it walked What did we learn? Nothing, other than deep reinforcement learning is effective We call it the digital sphinx www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
UW mechanical engineering PhD grads go on to do some many amazing things... including going to the Paralympics! I'm so stoked that I get to watch Nicole Zaino put her biomechanics knowledge to work while competing in para nordic skiing! www.washington.edu/boundless/ni...
A scientist on skis | Be Boundless
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@bingbrunton.bsky.social and I trying our hand at pinning a blue-eyed darner dragonfly, Rhionaeschna multicolor
Dragonflies are emerging at mid elevations in N Central WA: Libellula pulchella, Twelve-spotted Skimmer.
