Thanks for a wonderful conversation McGovern Institute !

Check out our new workshop paper connecting dynamical systems and deep learning sequence models - had a great time working on this with Mitchell Ostrow and FieteGroup !

I’m thrilled to be joining Carnegie Mellon University’s Machine Learning Department (Machine Learning Dept. at Carnegie Mellon) as an Assistant Professor this Fall! My lab will work at the intersection of neuroscience & AI to reverse-engineer animal intelligence and build the next generation of autonomous agents. Learn

Very excited to share two big life updates! 1) Starting in Fall 2025, I will be joining Brown University's school of engineering (Brown Engineering) as a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Engineering, with an appointment in the Carney Institute for Brain Science. 1/4

Using a novel technique for analyzing neuron activity, researchers discovered that the drug propofol induces unconsciousness by disrupting the brain’s normal balance between stability and excitability MIT Brain and Cognitive Sciences MIT Picower Institute McGovern Institute news.mit.edu/2024/study-rev…

"The brain has to operate on a knife's edge between excitability and chaos". He's right, you know. news.mit.edu/2024/study-rev…

Our paper is out today in Neuron! Huge thanks to my co-first author Leo Kozachkov, co-advisors Earl K. Miller and FieteGroup, and all of our co-authors - very grateful to have worked with everyone on this project!

Anesthetic causes unconsciousness by creating brain chaos newatlas.com/health-wellbei… #neuroscience

Excited to share our #ICML2024 workshop paper on memorization in LLMs Uncovering Latent Memories: Assessing Data Leakage and Memorization Patterns in Frontier AI Models w/ @KhonaMikail Abhiram Iyer Rylan Schaeffer & FieteGroup arxiv.org/abs/2406.14549 1/N

Excited to share our #IJCAI2024 paper on quantifying inductive bias in machine learning models Towards Exact Computation of Inductive Bias Joint work with William Yue, Jaedong Hwang, Abhiram Iyer & FieteGroup arxiv.org/abs/2406.15941 1/?

It's been hard to find the words, but here goes: I have been given the wonderful opportunity to start as an assistant professor CU Anschutz Medical Campus in July 2025. That also means opportunities for postdocs & grad students interested in models of motor circuits (simonsfoundation.org/people/laureli…).

1/ Excited to share a new preprint with anjie cao | 曹安洁 (co-first), Rebecca Saxe and Michael C. Frank: "A stimulus-computable rational model of habituation in infants and adults" biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

🚀 Excited to announce the BCI-Initiative x IDUN Kaggle Challenge! Join us in exploring the science of sleep 🧠 Build ML models to classify sleep events & contribute to neurotech! 🌙 Great for all levels, tackle sleep’s mysteries with us! kaggle.com/competitions/b… IDUN Technologies - EEG Earbuds

🧠 A story about the brain, told through self-supervised learning: Grid cells, known for mapping physical spaces, also appear to track *abstract spaces* like ideas and sounds. How? 🤔 Excited to share the first of 2 papers at #NeurIPS2024! With Sarthak Chandra FieteGroup. 1/n

I will be presenting our results at #NeurIPS2024 on Friday 11-2 at East Exhibit Hall A-C #1608. Drop by and say hi😊

In biology we measure downstream variables like genes, neurons, or species. But we can’t always measure their underlying causes. In Physical Review X I present a physics-based algorithm for learning causal drivers from time series (1/n) go.aps.org/3PwXhxe

1/ Super-excited to share our new work “Episodic and associative memory from spatial scaffolds in the hippocampus”, out in Nature today! nature.com/articles/s4158… FieteGroup Sugandha Sharma @ CVPR 2025 Rishidev Chaudhuri. Key insights and ideas 👇#tweeprint

1/ Our paper appeared in nature today! nature.com/articles/s4158… FieteGroup @KhonaMikail. Explains emergence of multiple grid cell modules, w/ excellent match to data! Novel mechanism for applying across vast systems from development to ecosystems. 🧵👇

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

Big week for astrocyte research: 3 new Science papers link astrocytes to behavior. We're excited to add to the momentum with our new PNAS paper: a theory, grounded in biology, proposing astrocytes as key players in memory storage and recall. w/ JJ Slotine and Dmitry Krotov (1/6)