Philip Wong

Biography

Philip graduated with a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Cornell University in 2016. As an undergraduate, he developed an interest in dynamical systems and control and investigated the applications of human-like decision making strategies for autonomous robots. At UC Santa Barbara, he now seeks to understand the neural implementation of perceptual decision making in the Drosophila larva. He is currently a graduate student in the Mechanical Engineering department at UC Santa Barbara under the joint supervision of Jeff Moehlis and Matthieu Louis.