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The Center for Neural Science at NYU is aiming to add another computational neuroscientist to our community: apply.interfolio.com/157767 Come join us!

I’ll be at NeurIPS Conference this year, sharing some work on explainability and representations. If you’re attending and want to chat, feel free to reach out !👋

I defended my PhD at MIT Brain and Cognitive Sciences last week--so much gratitude to my advisor Ev (like in 'evidence', not Eve) Fedorenko 🇺🇦, as well as my committee Nancy Kanwisher @[email protected] Josh McDermott Yoon Kim. Thank you to all my brilliant collaborators and the MIT community McGovern Institute. I have loved this journey so much.

Our CogCompNeuro GAC paper is out! We focus on two main questions: 1⃣ How should we use neuroscientific data in model development (raw experimental data vs. qualitative insights)? 2⃣ How should we collect experimental data for model development (model-free vs. model-based)?

Ok, well, I've just released a Kickstarter project for the book concept I've been working on in the last year. It's a journalist's take on what's been happening in AI, from a neuroscience perspective. It has 30 days to raise $77,800 in book preorders. kickstarter.com/projects/45417…

Excited to see this paper, led by powerhouse Colin Conwell, finally out! In this work, we wanted to understand the puzzling relationship between seeing & feeling: pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

Next week registration for CCN2025 will open. Do not forget to check this years social. It will be at IJver, nested in Amsterdam North's iconic NDSM wharf. There will be a 7 course walking dinner.

We investigate how the brain processes diverse languages using an LLM-brain encoding framework (led by Andrea de Varda)! Encoding models fitted on brain responses in one language transfer to a new, unseen language--demonstrating a shared representational space across languages.

There's never been a more exciting time to explore the science of intelligence! 🧠 What can ideas and approaches from science tell us about how AI works? What might superhuman AI reveal about human cognition? Join us for an internship at Harvard to explore together! 1/

Thrilled to announce that my PhD work has been officially published in nature! nature.com/articles/s4158… 🧵🧵🧵🧵🧵🧵 1/8

In the physical world, almost all information is transmitted through traveling waves -- why should it be any different in your neural network? Super excited to share recent work with the brilliant Mozes Jacobs: "Traveling Waves Integrate Spatial Information Through Time" 1/14

I think this method is quite important for interpretability research, and for understanding learned representations. Hats off to Thomas Fel and team!

NEW in the #KempnerInstitute blog: Want consistent & stable #SAE concepts across training runs? Archetypal SAE anchors concepts in the real data’s convex hull and delivers consistent & stable dictionaries! Read the blog: bit.ly/4kEAJZN

New preprint! Excited to share our latest work “Accelerated learning of a noninvasive human brain-computer interface via manifold geometry” ft. outstanding former UG Chandra Fincke, Guillaume Lajoie , @krishnaswamylab, & @wutsaiyale's Nick Turk-Browne 1/8 doi.org/10.1101/2025.0…

New paper!🧠**The cerebellar components of the human language network** with: Hannah Small Moshe Poliak Greta Tuckute Ben Lipkin agata wolna Anila D'Mello and Ev (like in 'evidence', not Eve) Fedorenko 🇺🇦 biorxiv.org/content/10.110… 1/n 🧵

If you're attending #vss2025, come check out these presentations by members of the Kempner community! #neuroscience #neuroAI #AI #ML

What are the organizing dimensions of language processing? We show that voxel responses are organized along 2 main axes: processing difficulty & meaning abstractness—revealing an interpretable, topographic representational basis for language processing shared across individuals.

This workshop is going to be properly epic...very honored to be included among the speakers

What shapes the topography of high-level visual cortex? Excited to share a new pre-print addressing this question with connectivity-constrained interactive topographic networks, titled "Retinotopic scaffolding of high-level vision", w/ Marlene Behrmann & David Plaut. 🧵 ↓ 1/n

The Kempner Institute congratulates its research fellows Isabel Papadimitriou (Isabel Papadimitriou) and Jenn Hu (Jennifer Hu) for their faculty appointments (UBC Linguistics & JHU Cognitive Science) and celebrates their innovative research. Read more here: bit.ly/448heBy #AI #LLMs