A photo looking from the side at a team of Novomessor cockerelli ants carrying a yellow disc-shaped load. Photo credit to Aurélie Buffin.

Lab Collaborators

The interdisciplinary nature of the laboratory leads naturally to a wide range of collaborations with researchers from other labs. This page attempts to capture some of the significant, longer-lasting collaborations. That said, over time, there have been plenty of shorter-lived but still extremely meaningful collaborations that nevertheless may have been excluded from this list; it is not exhaustive!

Faculty Collaborations

Either currently or in the not-too-distant past, there has been a close collaborative relationship with the faculty below or members of their labs. This may have involved working together on externally sponsored research (grants), writing manuscripts together, or directly participating in the mentoring of graduate students. See also faculty in the Lab Alumni.

Faculty NameInstitutionAcademic Unit(s)
Stephen C. PrattArizona State UniversitySchool of Life Sciences
Juergen LiebigArizona State UniversitySchool of Life Sciences
Jennifer FewellArizona State UniversitySchool of Life Sciences
Brian SmithArizona State UniversitySchool of Life Sciences
Jon HarrisonArizona State UniversitySchool of Life Sciences
Hong LeiArizona State UniversitySchool of Life Sciences
Timothy LinksvayerArizona State UniversitySchool of Life Sciences
Jessica EbieArizona State UniversitySchool of Life Sciences
Zachary ShafferArizona State UniversitySchool of Life Sciences
Yun KangArizona State UniversitySchool of Applied Sciences and Arts
Sara Imari WalkerArizona State UniversitySchool of Complex Adaptive Systems
School of Earth and Space Exploration
Beyond Center for Fundamental Concepts in Science
Paul DaviesArizona State UniversityDepartment of Physics
Beyond Center for Fundamental Concepts in Science
Kathryn JohnsonArizona State UniversityDepartment of Psychology
Athena AktipisArizona State UniversityDepartment of Psychology
Spring BermanArizona State UniversitySchool for Engineering of Matter, Transport, and Energy
Center for Human, Artificial Intelligence, and Robot Teaming
Andrea RichaArizona State UniversitySchool of Computing and Augmented Intelligence
Pavan TuragaArizona State UniversitySchool of Arts, Media and Engineering
Ben PhillipsArizona State UniversitySchool of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies
Georgios FainekosToyota Research Institute of North America
(formerly at Arizona State University)
Toyota Motor North America R&D
(formerly at School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence)
Robbie WilsonUniversity of QueenslandSchool of the Environment
Maxsim BazhenovUniversity of California, San DiegoSchool of Medicine [Department of Medicine]
Chris ReidMacquarie UniversitySchool of Natural Sciences
Takao SasakiUniversity of GeorgiaOdum School of Ecology
Nobuaki MizumotoAuburn UniversityDepartment of Entomology & Plant Pathology
John SaboTulane UniversityByWater Institute
Department of River-Coastal Science and Engineering
Faculty who either currently or in the recent past have had a close collaboration with the lab, either related to externally sponsored projects, joint manuscripts, or mentoring of students.

Non-lab Student and Postdoctoral Collaborations

The collaborative nature of this lab means that there are often students and postdocs whose formal advising or mentoring home is elsewhere but whose significant interactions with the lab make them a kind of “honorary” member. See also students and postdocs directly associated with the lab listed in Lab Members and Lab Alumni.

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Dr. Rebecca Wheatley

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Tasmania
Dynamics of Eco-Evolutionary Patterns (DEEP) Lab

Connected via: Robbie Wilson (UQ)
[former Ecology PhD student]

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Dr. Andrew Hunter

Research Associate, University of Queensland
The Performance Lab

Connected via: Robbie Wilson (UQ)
[former Ecology PhD student]

Dr. Cumhur Erkan Tuncali

Senior Applied Scientist, Amazon

Connected via: Georgios Fainekos (ASU)
[former Computer Engineering PhD student]

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Dr. Jake Hanson

Connected via: Sara Imari Walker (ASU)
[former Astrophysics PhD student]

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Dr. Alyssa M. Adams

Research Scientist, Cross Labs

Connected via: Sara Imari Walker (ASU)
[former Physics PhD student]

Dr. Hyunju Kim

Machine Learning Engineer, IQVIA

Connected via: Sara Imari Walker (ASU)
[former postdoctoral researcher]

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Dr. M. Gabriela Navas-Zuloaga

Postdoctoral Scholar, University of California, San Diego

Connected via: Brian Smith/Yun Kang (ASU)
[former Applied Math for the Life and Social Sciences PhD Student]

Dr. Xiaohui Guo

Postdoctoral Fellow, Weizmann Institute of Science

Connected via: Jennifer Fewell (ASU)
[former Animal Behavior PhD student]

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Ruben Gameros

Graduate Research Assistant, ASU

Connected via: Spring Berman (ASU)
[Exploration Systems Design PhD student]

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Sangeet S. Ulhas

Graduate Research Assistant, ASU

Connected via: Spring Berman (ASU)
[Mechanical Engineering PhD student]

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Shenbagaraj Kannapiran

Graduate Research Assistant, ASU

Connected via: Spring Berman (ASU)
[Mechanical Engineering PhD student]

Organizational Affiliations

The lab is affiliated with a number of different centers and other organizations across the university that have been formed to help catalyze the formation of new interdisciplinary connections. Consequently, these affiliations are worth mentioning as proto-collaborations that have either already been the source of some of the collaborations above or have significant potential to generate new collaborations in the future.