Neural Circuits and Algorithms

The goal of Mitya Chklovskii’s research is to reverse engineer the brain on the algorithmic level. Informed by anatomical and physiological neuroscience data, his group develops algorithms that model brain computation and solve machine learning tasks.

Yanis Bahroun joined Flatiron Institute’s Center for Computational Biology as a Research Fellow in 2019.

Nicholas Chua joined the Simons Foundation in 2017 as a member of the Neuroscience group in the Center for Computational Biology.

Ben Cohen joined the Flatiron Institute’s Computational Center for Biology in 2019.

Shiva Farashahi joined the Flatiron Institute in 2019 as a Research Fellow in the Center for Computational Biology.

Johannes Friedrich joined the Flatiron Institute in 2017 as a member of the neuroscience group at the Center for Computational Biology. His research focuses on efficient machine-learning and optimization algorithms for statistical analysis of large-scale neural data, as well as on theories of neural computation,…

Siavash Golkar joined the Flatiron Institute in 2019 in the Center for Computational Biology.

David Lipshutz joined the Flatiron Institute in 2019 as an Associate Research Scientist within the Center for Computational Biology.

Tiberiu Tesileanu joined the Flatiron Institute’s Center for Computational Biology as an Associate Research Scientist in 2018. My research focuses on learning and normative models in neuroscience.

Myisha Thasin joined the Flatiron Institute’s Computational Center for Biology in April 2018.

Sonia Villani joined the Simons Foundation as a member of the Neuroscience Group in the Center for Computational Biology in March of 2018.