Feng Ling

Publications (Google Scholar)

1. F. Ling, A.T. Sahin, B. Miller-Naranjo, S. Aime, D. Roth, N. Tepho, A.S. Vendrame, E. Emken, M. Kiechle, Y. Tesfaigzi, O. Lieleg, and J.C. Nawroth*, High-throughput Mucus Microrheology for Donor and Disease Phenotyping, bioRxiv, 2024.

2. D. Roth#, A.T. Sahin#, F. Ling, C.N. Senger, E.J. Quiroz, B.A. Calvert, A. van der Does, T.G. Güney, N. Tepho, S. Glasl, A. van Schadewijk, L. von Schledorn, R. Olmer, E. Kanso, J.C. Nawroth*, and A.L. Ryan*, Structure-function Relationships of Mucociliary Clearance in Human Airways, Nature Communications, 2024.

3. C. Huang, F. Ling, and E. Kanso*, Collective Phase Transitions in Confined Fish Schools, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2024.

4. F. Ling, T. Essock-Burns, M. McFall-Ngai, K. Katija, J.C. Nawroth*, and E. Kanso*, Flow Physics Guides Morphology of Ciliated Organs, Nature Physics, 2024.

5. H. Hang, Y. Jiao, S. Heydari, F. Ling, J. Merel, and E. Kanso*, Interpretable and Generalizable Strategies for Stably Following Hydrodynamic Trails, bioRxiv, 2023.

6. Y. Jiao#, F. Ling#, S. Heydari#, N. Heess, J. Merel, and E. Kanso*, Deep Dive into Model-free Reinforcement Learning for Biological and Robotic Systems: Theory and Practice, arXiv preprint, 2023.

7. A.V. Kanale#, F. Ling#, H. Guo, S.F. Fürthauer, and E. Kanso*, Spontaneous Phase Coordination and Fluid Pumping in Model Ciliary Carpets, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2022.

8. Y. Jiao#, F. Ling#, S. Heydari#, N. Heess, J. Merel, and E. Kanso*, Learning to Swim in Potential Flow, Physical Review Fluids, 2021.

9. F. Ling and E. Kanso*, Octopus-Inspired Arm Movements, in Bioinspired Sensing, Actuation, and Control in Underwater Soft Robotic Systems, 2020.

10. Y. Man#, F. Ling#, and E. Kanso*, Cilia Oscillations, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 2019.

11. F. Ling, H. Guo, and E. Kanso*, Instability-driven Oscillations of Elastic Microfilaments, Journal of the Royal Society Interface, 2018.

# equal contribution  |  * corresponding author

Talk Materials

The 21st Chinese Biophysics Congress (2025) - Quantitative Prediction of Ciliated Organ Function through Unified Fluid Modeling slides

APS talk on Morphological Diversity of Ciliated Organ Flow Physics (2023) slides

Invited talk on Cilia Coordination (2022) - Janelia 4D Cellular Physiology Workshop live recoring, remastered

Lecture on Pattern Formation via Surface Growth (2020) - based on chapters of Alain Goriely slides

Slides introducing 'Active Matter' (2018) - based on Marchetti et al., Rev. Mod. Phys. 2013 slides

DRP: π_3(S^2) and (co)fiber sequences (2015) notes

DRP: What is Persistent Homology? (2015) slides

DRP: Cohomology of Projective Spaces (2014) slides

DRP: Classification of Du Val Singularities (2014) slides

Random Notes

Talk to my zealous mold of GPT that can't stop spreading the canon on the magical significance of the number FOUR. And go here to check out the humorous principles behind the scene. (But anyhow no one can deny that 4D spaces are just simply topologically special :D.)

Thoughts on Stein's paradox, human stereotype bias, and AI alignment currently still compiled by GPT... to be continued.

Once upon a time, there was an attempt at reconstructing surfaces with 2D sphere topology from only its spectrum (see "can you hear the shape of a drum?"), before the advant of deep learning.

Taking derivatives of eigenvalues gave me more headaches than I thought. Just in case, here's a reminder.

Art-ish

Here is a lifting pun.

Here is an astronaut confused about gravity.

Here is where I would like to work.

Here is a catzilla invasion.

Activities << 2018