I develop methods for connectomic analysis and study what's innate in neurodevelopment and AI.
now
- FutureHouse AI-for-Science Fellow & Eric and Wendy Schmidt Fellow · Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
- with Sven Dorkenwald, Xiao Wang & Jason Buenrostro
2025
building & organizing
- 3 workshops on neurodev × ML — Cosyne 2023, Harvard, Bernstein
- Harvard Neurodevelopment Club · 2024–25
- Boston Hungarians Science Lectures · since 2021
art
training
- PhD, Harvard Biophysics · 2024 — with Florian Engert
- BS Physics, Notre Dame — with Zoltán Toroczkai
Past Roles
- I was a NeuroAI Scholar at CSHL with Tony Zador and Alex Koulakov (Summer 2021).
- I worked on a Postbaccalaureate Intramural Research Training Award at the National Institute of Mental Health (2017-2018).
- As a Janelia Undergraduate Scholar, I modeled fly behavior using Reinforcement Learning with Ann Hermundstad and Vivek Jayaraman (2017).
- I participated in the Undergraduate Research Program at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, optimizing a calcium imaging analysis pipeline with Anne Churchland and Matt Kaufman (2016).
- At MIT, I prototyped methods for reconstructing neurons from Expansion Microscopy with Adam Marblestone and Ed Boyden (2015).
- I assisted with Yeast-Two Hybrid assays of protein-protein interactions with Nidhi Sahni in Marc Vidal's Center for Cancer Systems Biology at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute (2012).
- I developed face recognition software for social interaction research with Manuel Cebrian in Sandy Pentland's Human Dynamics group at the MIT Media Lab (2010).
Page me at barabasi(a)broadinstitute(d)org.