News

2026

February 2026, Alexandre Polo, a physics PhD student, has joined the group after a successful rotation. Welcome!
February 2026, Congrats to Albert and Will on the publication of the new paper, “Neural population geometry and optimal coding of tasks with shared latent structure”, in Nature Neuroscience!
February 2026, Congrats to Chi-Ning, Chan Woo, and Abdul on their ICLR 2026 paper acceptances! Preprints forthcoming.

2025

December 2025, Manu has been awarded an SNSF Mobility Fellowship. Congratulations!
December 2025, Keynote talk at the Montreal AI & Neuroscience Meeting (MAIN 2025).
December 2025, We’ve created a sign-up form for email updates on future code releases, including work on manifold capacity, GLUE, and related methods. Link: Chung Lab Code Release Notification
December 2025, SueYeon gave a keynote talk at the NeurIPS workshop "Symmetry and Geometry in Neural Representations".
December 2025, The Harvard Physics 2025 Newsletter highlights our group on its cover; the full newsletter can be viewed here.
November 2025, Our lab’s work has been recognized by the “Rising stars in Neuroscience” award by the Transmitter. See the press releases by Harvard and Simons Foundation.
November 2025, SueYeon gave a talk at the Human Single Neuron Meeting 2025 at CalTech.
July-August 2025, SueYeon presented multiple talks at KAIST’s Stochastic Analysis & Applications Research Center, the AI Graduate School, and Korea Institute for Advanced Study’s Neuro-AI Lecture Series.
July 2025, SueYeon gave a seminar at the Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit.
July 2025, Manu Srinath Halvagal joined the group as a postdoc fellow. Welcome!
June 2025, SueYeon gave a talk at the Frontiers in Neuro-AI Symposium at Harvard. [video]
May 2025, SueYeon gave a talk at the 128th Statistical Mechanics Conference at Rutgers University.
May 2025, Chan-Woo Chun, previously a student collaborator, officially joined our group as a postdoc fellow. Welcome!
May 2025, Our new paper was accepted to CogCompNeuro 2025—congrats to Abdul and Chan-Woo!
April 2025, Several lab members and SueYeon attended the NETI Workshop at UT Austin.
March 2025, Our lab gave 2 talks (1 main meeting and 1 workshop) and presented 3 posters at Cosyne 2025. SueYeon also completed her two-year tenure as workshop co-chair and gave a talk at the Mentoring and Networking Luncheon.
January 2025, Our paper was accepted at NAACL 2025—led by Artem and in collaboration with Kyunghyun Cho. Congratulations, Artem!

2024

SueYeon gave a talk at the 2024 NeurIPS Workshop on Unifying Representations in Neural Models (UniReps), Vancouver, Canada. [Video]
SueYeon gave a talk at the 2024 NIH BRAIN Initiative NeuroAI Workshop, Bethesda, MD. [Videocast]
October 2024, Check out our lab's work at From Neuroscience to Artificially Intelligent Systems (NAISys) 2024: 2 talks, 5 posters. [Link]
September 2024, SueYeon’ll be co-chairing workshops at COSYNE 2025. Proposal deadline: 10/4/2024.
July 2024, The lab is awarded an R01 grant! Thanks to the NIH Brain Initiative and the NIDA for their generous support!
May 2024, Uriel Leon, Hyunmo Kang, William Yang, and Satchel Grant joins our lab as this year's Summer interns. Yichen Wang returns for another Summer internship!
March 2024, Works from our lab were presented at Cosyne 2024 (Link)
February 2024, Our lab receives a grant from Alfred P. Sloan Foundation!
Course on neural networks in the Spring 2024 term.
January 2024, SueYeon gave a keynote talk at Conf. on Parsimony and Learning (CPAL)

2023

November 2023, Papers at NeurIPS 2023: "Canatar and Feather et al" (spotlight, main meeting), "Yerxa et al" (main meeting), "Ligeralde and Kuang et al" (UniReps workshop). Talk at the Sensorium workshop.
November 2023, SueYeon gave a seminar at Mind, Brain, Computation and Technology at Stanford
November 2023, SueYeon gave a talk at Physics colloquium at Washington University at St Louis
October 2023, Albert’s PRL paper is highlighted in Simons Foundation’s science feature article.
September 2023, Our paper, A Spectral Theory of Neural Prediction and Alignment, has been accepted to NeurIPS as a spotlight. Congrats Abdul, Jenelle and Albert!
September 2023, Our paper on Maximum Manifold Capacity Representations has been accepted to NeurIPS. Congrats Teddy and Yilun!
August 2023, Our lab participated in the Analytical Connectionism Summer School 2023 in London
August 2023, SueYeon gave a plenary talk at ICML Workshop on High-dimensional Learning Dynamics
July 2023, Our new paper on the role of correlated variability in neural manifold capacity is published in Physical Review Letters (selected as an Editors’ Suggestion, and featured in Physics)
July 2023, Chi-Ning Chou joins our lab as a postdoctoral researcher
July 2023, Our lab receives the Klingenstein Simons award!
June 2023, Jenelle speaks at the Junior Theoretical Neuroscientist Workshop at Flatiron CCN
June 2023, Jenelle’s spotlight paper published in Trends in Cognitive Science
June 2023, Ariel Largen, Francesco Mantegna, Shaunak Bhandarkar, Yichen Wang, and Zijing Wu join our lab as summer interns.
April 2023, Congratulations to Albert Wakhloo, who will be attending Columbia for his PhD in Neural Science
April 2023, Congratulations to Yilun Kuang, who will be attending the NYU for his PhD in Data Science
March 2023, Teddy Yerxa (co-mentored with Eero Simoncelli) and Yilun Kuang present their poster at Cosyne. Jenelle Feather also presents!
January 2023, New Paper in PNAS! Collaboration with Dan Sanes Lab
December 2023, Intern Andrew Ligeralde’s paper got accepted into Neurreps workshop

2022

November 2022, Intern Wanyu Lei presents poster at Deepmath
October 2022, Abdul Canatar and Jenelle Feather joins our lab as postdoctoral researchers
September 2022, Graduate student Sonica Saraf (co-advised with Tony Movshon) joins the lab
September 2022, Our lab joins NYU’s Center for Neural Science. We are now fully joint between NYU and Flatiron Institute
June 2022, PhD candidates Andrew Ligeralde, Aishwarya Balwani, Chi-Ning Chou, and Wanyu Lei join our lab as summer interns. Yilun Kuang also joins the lab as an undergraduate summer intern.
June 2022, Nga Yu Lo joins the lab as a research analyst
April 2022, Our lab’s past & future research directions were featured in Flatiron Scientist Spotlight.
February 2022, New preprint (arxiv): “The implicit bias of gradient descent on generalized gated linear networks”
January 2022, Our lab joins Flatiron Institute’s Center for Computational Neuroscience