Alumni

Berke Altiparmak

Master's Student

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Alex Atanasov

Physics Graduate Student -> Postdoc -> D.E. Shaw

Alex is a Physics PhD student interested in the intersection of statistical physics, neuroscience, and deep learning. He did his BS and MS in mathematical physics at Yale.

Elie Attias

Master Student -> Palantir Technologies

Elie is a master's student in computational science and engineering interested in the intersection of neuroscience and deep learning. He majored in mathematics and physics, and minored in biology from Ecole Polytechnique Paris. In his spare time, Elie...

Blake Bordelon

Applied Math Graduate Student -> CMSA Postdoctoral Fellow -> Assistant Professor at UT Austin Oden Institute and Department of Neuroscience

Blake is a CMSA postdoc with research interests at the intersection of machine learning, physics and theoretical neuroscience. He is especially interested in representation learning, population codes, and kernel limits of neural networks. Before joining...

John Breedis

Computational Science & Engineering Graduate Student

John is a Computational Science and Engineering MEng student who is primarily interested in enabling ML models to solve complex reasoning tasks. Before joining the Pehlevan group, he received a BSc in Applied Mathematics from the University of Texas at...

Abdulkadir Canatar

Physics Graduate Student [2019-2022] -> Flatiron Institute

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Hamza Chaudhry

Applied Math Graduate Student -> Translational AI Fellowship at the Wyss Institute

Hamza is an Applied Mathematics Ph.D. student interested in the application of artificial intelligence to complex adaptive systems, with particular focuses on embodied cognition and computational imagination. Prior to joining the Pehlevan group, he...

David Clark

Kempner Research Fellow -> Group Leader at Flatiron Institute

David is a theoretical neuroscientist and research fellow at the Kempner Institute at Harvard. Neural circuits are characterized by their large scale, nonlinear dynamics, complex recurrent interactions, and connections that change across multiple...

Matthew Farrell

Swartz Postdoctoral Fellow -> RIKEN

Matthew is a postdoctoral fellow at SEAS. He received his PhD in Applied Mathematics from the University of Washington, where he combined applied math tools with computational-neuroscience-inspired measures to shed light on the behavior of artificial...

Fabrizio Forte

Visiting Master Student

Fabrizio is a master’s student in physics and data science at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. He is interested in the intersection between statistical physics, machine learning, and theoretical neuroscience. He received his B.S. in physics from...

Ugne Klibaite

MBB Postdoctoral Fellow (joint with Ölveczky Lab) -> Ölveczky Lab

Ugne is a postdoctoral fellow in the Pehlevan and Ölveczky groups. She is exploring animal behavior at the interface of neuroscience and machine learning, and aims to understand how animals organize and perform complex behaviors across a variety of...

Mohit Kulkarni

Master's Student in Neural Systems and Computation (ETHZ)

Mohit is a Master's student at ETH Zurich studying Neural Systems and Computation. He completed his Bachelor's in Mathematics at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, and was a visiting researcher at the Allen Institute for Neural Dynamics from 2020...