The lab received a new grant from the NIH/NIDA BRAIN Initiative, "Representational geometry: evaluating brain-computational models with neural activity data" in collaboration with the Wei Lab at the University of Texas
We’re excited to share that our lab has launched an official YouTube channel! This new platform will feature talks, tutorials, behind-the-scenes looks at our research, and highlights from our events. Our goal is to make our science more accessible and provide a space to share ideas with a broader community.
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This semester, we are delighted to welcome two new graduate students to the lab: Boran Wang from the Psychology Department and Kedar Garzón from the Neurobiology and Behavior Department. We’re excited for the expertise, energy, and fresh perspectives they will bring to our research!
We are excited to welcome Dr. Akihito Maruya, who joins the lab as a postdoctoral research scientist after receiving his PhD SUNY’s Graduate Center for Vision Research. Akihito brings valuable expertise and a fresh perspective to our research, and we look forward to the contributions he will make!
The David Marr medal recognizes the achievements of an outstanding vision scientist in the early part of their research career. The Appiled Vision Association invites nominations for this award every two year.
Paul was recognized for "his pioneering research on visual experience, particularly his psychophysical studies
challenging the role of vergence (eye rotation) in size and distance perception, his theoretical work developing new theories of 3D vision and the ‘perception’ / ‘cognition’ distinction, and his recent work developing new illusions of visual experience" by the AVA. …
The lab welcomes new postdoctoral researcher, Dr. Amir Farzmahdi, who joined January 16, 2025 to work on recurrent models of visual inference in the primate brain.
A new paper, “The topology and geometry of neural representations” led by Dr. Baihan Lin is now published in PNAS!
The lab welcomes postdoctoral researcher, Dr. Fan Cheng, who joined us on August 16th, 2024 to work on computational models of visual illusions.
The lab welcomes new graduate student, Pinyuan Feng, who joins us through the psychology department.
A new paper, “Can neural networks benefit from objectives that encourage iterative convergent computations? A case study of ResNets and object classification” led by Sam Lippl is now published in PLoS One! A tweet thread summarizing the paper is here.
Congratulations to Dr Baihan Lin for defending his thesis, “Topological Representational Similarity Analysis in Brains and Beyond”, and receiving his doctoral degree in Cellular, Molecular and Biophysical Studies. Dr Lin is now working as an Assistant Professor in AI, Psychiatry, and Neuroscience at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.