
I work on research in AI and neuroscience. I'm interested in studying mechanistic circuits behind cognitive behaviors (for example, in transformers that in-context reinforcement learn) and understanding how representation structures influence learning (for example, from self-supervised learning in deep RL models or multimodal foundation models).
I am currently a research fellow at the Cambridge-Boston Alignment Initiative, after working as a postdoctoral researcher at Harvard University. I completed my PhD at Columbia University's Center for Theoretical Neuroscience, where my research centered on models of episodic memory in the hippocampus and key-value memory. I was also a previous ML research intern at Apple, working on multimodal foundation models for biosignals. I completed my undergraduate degree in computer science and molecular biology at UC Berkeley, where I worked on research studying learning in brain-machine interfaces.
Updates
- Apr 2025: Organized a Cosyne workshop "Agent-based Models in Neuroscience: Complex Planning, Embodiment and Beyond"
- Mar 2025: Presented at the Yale Neuro-AI journal club
- Jan 2025: Our paper "Barcode activity in a recurrent network model of the hippocampus enables efficient memory binding" is now out in eLife
- Dec 2024: Presented my internship work with Apple at NeuRIPS Medical Foundation Models Workshop: "Promoting cross-modal representations to improve multimodal foundation models for physiological signals"
- Oct 2024: Started my postdoc with Kanaka Rajan
- Sep 2024: Defended my thesis and finished my PhD
- Sep 2024: Finished my ML research internship at Apple
- May 2024: Presented ICLR Oral on our paper "Predictive auxiliary objectives in deep RL mimic learning in the brain"
- Apr 2024: Started ML research internship at Apple's Body-Sensing Intelligence Group
- Mar 2024: Gave a Cosyne workshop talk on our barcode-memory model
- Mar 2024: Gave a Cosyne talk on our work in relating Deep RL models + auxiliary objectives to neuroscience
- Feb 2024: Gave a talk at the DeepMind NeuroLab workshop