Vikram B. Baliga

Research Associate, University of British Columbia

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Welcome

I’m a (data) scientist at UBC who focuses on questions related to animal locomotion, vision, and evolutionary biology.

My research asks how musculoskeletal and visual systems allow animals to control complex motion. This means I get to use motion capture and virtual reality to investigate animals’ locomotor behaviors, and examine anatomy & physiology to understand how these behaviors are made possible. This framework not only helps us understand animals’ capabilities, but also inspires engineering. Some of my chief collaborators are engineers who incorporate biological insight into designing structures with multi-functional capabilities.

Data from behavioral or physiological studies tend to be extremely noisy. Making sense of information in these diverse data sets makes me appreciate statistical methods and the design of effective visualizations. One of my favorite things to do is work with people through these types of problems.

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