Brain-like Computation and Intelligence: Model-Guided Causal Interventions
Guest lecture in the graduate-level course Brain-like Computation and Intelligence (EPFL NX-414).
Teaching, Talks, & Press
Teaching
Psychological and Behavioral Science Tripos (PBS4)
Teaching assistant for undergraduate students across 6 trimesters (2016–2018) in the Psychological and Behavioral Science Tripos (PBS4) at Cambridge University.
Invited Talks
Model-Guided Microstimulation Steers Primate Visual Behavior
Invited Talk, Max Planck School of Cognition Summer Academy, Dresden, Germany, July 2026
Model-Guided Microstimulation Steers Primate Visual Behavior
Invited Talk, Visual Inference Laboratory, Prof. Nikolaus Kriegeskorte, Columbia University, New York, US (remote), May 2026
Model-Guided Microstimulation Steers Primate Visual Behavior
Invited Talk, Cognitive Computational Neuroscience Lab, Prof. Adrien Doerig, Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany (remote), November 2025
TopoLM: brain-like spatio-functional organization in a topographic language model
Invited Talk, Workshop on Large Language Models in Brain Research, Giessen University, Giessen, Germany, September 2025
TopoLM: brain-like spatio-functional organization in a topographic language model
Workshop Talk, Workshop on Topographic Deep Neural Network Models, CCN Conference, CCN 2025, August 2025
TopoLM: brain-like spatio-functional organization in a topographic language model
Oral Presentation (top 2%), International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), ICLR 2025, April 2025
Topographic ANNs predict neural and behavioral responses to causal perturbations
Invited Talk, International Interdisciplinary Computational Cognitive Science Summer School, Osnabrück, Germany, August 2024
Topographic ANNs predict neural and behavioral responses to causal perturbations
Invited Talk, EBRAINS Baltic-Nordic Summer School on Neuroscience, Helsinki, Finland, July 2024
Artificial neural network models for computational neurology and psychiatry
Invited Talk, Translational Neuromodeling Unit, Prof. Klaas Enno Stephan, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, June 2024
Topographic ANNs predict neural and behavioral responses to causal perturbations
Invited Talk, Computational Cognitive Neuroscience and Quantitative Psychiatry, Prof. Martin Hebart, Giessen University, Giessen, Germany, May 2024
Press
- 2025 — EPFL News: "A new AI language model that mimics the organization of the brain"
- 2025 — Swiss national radio RTS: "TopoLM: une IA de langage qui comprend structure et fonction du cerveau" (French)