Garnier, Simon J.

 

Simon Garnier is an Associate Professor in the Federated Department of Biology at the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) and Rutgers-Newark. He obtained a PhD from the University of Toulouse (France) under the direction of Dr. Guy Theraulaz and performed his postdoctoral work with Professor Iain Couzin at Princeton University.

Simon is now the head of the Swarm Lab (http://www.theswarmlab.com), an interdisciplinary research lab that studies the mechanisms underlying Collective Behaviors and Swarm Intelligence in natural and artificial systems. The Swarm Lab started to operate in July 2012 and its research aims to reveal the detailed functioning of collective intelligence in systems as diverse as ant colonies, human crowds or robotic swarms. The Swarm Lab focuses in particular on the mechanisms of information transfer and integration in large groups that can lead to adaptive (or “intelligent”) collective responses to environmental challenges. Funding for the Swarm Lab research comes from the National Science Foundation, the James S. McDonnell Foundation, and the Australian Research Council. Simon Garnier was also recently awarded a 2019 DARPA Young Faculty Award.