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Talk at the 2024 NeurIPS Workshop on Unifying Representations in Neural Models (UniReps), Vancouver, Canada. [Video]
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, I’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, Keynote talk at Conf. on Parsimony and Learning (CPAL)
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, Mind, Brain, Computation and Technology seminar at Stanford
November 2023, 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, 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
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