Biography
I am a first-year PhD student in computational neuroscience 🧠 at the Mathis lab of Adaptive Motor Control (PI Prof. Mackenzie Mathis) as part of the ELLIS PhD program. I work on understanding how the brain represents external features in its environment and constructs internal models to generalize and extract the relevant information from it 🧩. I have a strong interest in investigating the dynamics 💫 taking place during the formation of such internal representation while learning a task. To do so, I will relate motor control 💪 and vision 👀 by exploring the processes at play in active sensing.
More generally, with the development of powerful recording tools 📡 such as Neuropixels, neuroscientists can find relevant structure in the data, at the neural population level. I am interested in bringing the appropriate computational and mathematical methods to the field, by adapting theories from topological algebra, graphs or dynamical systems.
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- Computational Neurosciences
- Artificial & neural intelligence
- Representation learning
- Dynamical systems
- Motor control, vision & learning
PhD in Electrical Engineering, Present
EPFL
MSc in Computational Neurosciences, 2022
EPFL
BSc in Life Science Engineering, 2019
EPFL
Experience
- Working on representation and adaptive learning in biological and artificial networks.
- Part of the European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems (ELLIS) PhD program.
Implementation of new functionalities to CEBRA, a dimensionality reduction tool for neural data, using contrastive learning (Nature, 2023).
- Joint modeling of auxiliary and time-series data code development and extensions.
- Maintenance of the existing code.
- Building data management & inference pipelines for models and code.
Semester projets in diverse laboratories of the School of Life Sciences:
- Mathis Laboratory of Adaptative Motor Control - Discrete Representation of Behaviors in a multi-agent dataset.
- Herzog Lab - Laboratory of Psychophysics - Modeling of Serial Dependency in Visual Perception.
- Gräff Lab - Laboratory of Neuroepigenetics - Functional Mapping of Remote fear memory extinction.
Skills
PyTorch, ML libraries
Learning and decision-making
Matlab, Java, C++, SQL
Awards
Projects
Teaching
Teaching assistant for Master’s course of Prof. Mackenzie. This was the first year that the course was given. This included:
- Helping with the conception of the course, sections slides and exam questions.
- Leading weekly journal clubs during the exercise sections, orienting the students to have a discussion on the papers we reviewed.
- Follow-up on courses, answering questions and deepening complex concepts.
- Reviewing, proctoring & correcting exams.
Teaching assistant for third-year Bachelor’s students in the course of Prof. Mackenzie Mathis and Pavan Ramdya. This included:
- Overview presentation at the beginning of every exercises sections.
- Follow-up on courses, answering questions and deepening complex concepts.
- Leading the exercises sessions, orienting students on difficult questions.
- Reviewing, proctoring & correcting exams.
Teaching assistant for first-year Bachelor’s students in the course of Prof. Jamila Sam and Barbara Jobstmann. Both in person and remotly. This included:
- Follow-up on courses, answering questions and deepening certain theoretical notions.
- Leading the exercises sessions, orienting students on difficult questions.
- Answering on Piazza forum / Zoom chat, keeping students motivated even remotly.
Teaching assistant for second-year Bachelor’s students. Both in person and remotly. This included:
- Follow-up on courses, answering questions and deepening certain theoretical notions.
- Leading the exercises sessions, orienting students on difficult questions.
- Answering on Piazza forum / Zoom chat, keeping students motivated even remotly.
Teaching assistant for first-year Bachelor’s students in the course of Prof. Ivo Furno. Both in person and remotly. This included:
- Follow-up on courses, answering questions and deepening certain theoretical notions.
- Leading the exercises sessions, orienting students on difficult questions.
- Correcting mock-exams and presenting the solutions to the student on white board.
- Answering on Piazza forum / Zoom chat, keeping students motivated even remotly.
Interests
Marathon, semi-marathon, trails
Hiking, skiing, climbing
Sailing, kite-surfing, scuba-diving
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