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I’m an Assistant Professor at Carnegie Mellon University’s Machine Learning Department, a core faculty member of the Neuroscience Institute, and hold a courtesy appointment in the Robotics Institute. My lab, the NeuroAgents lab, works at the intersection of neuroscience & AI to reverse-engineer animal intelligence and build the next generation of autonomous agents. Learn more here.

I can advise PhD students from any department within CMU’s School of Computer Science or the Neural Computation program. Please see here for more details before contacting me. For prospective students: Please apply to any of those two programs and list me as a potential advisor in your application. I am *not* hiring for *remote* opportunities at this time.

Previously, I was an ICoN Postdoctoral Fellow at MIT, primarily working with Guangyu Robert Yang and Mehrdad Jazayeri. I completed my PhD (thesis & recording) in the Stanford Neurosciences Program, co-advised by Dan Yamins and Surya Ganguli. Before that, I completed my Master’s in Computer Science (AI Specialization), as well as my undergraduate major in Mathematics (with a secondary degree in Symbolic Systems), at Stanford University. During that time, I did work in theoretical computer science and other areas of math. My Erdős number is 3.