Interview for the Flatiron Scientist Spotlight Series

Scientists and philosophers have long been fascinated with how we perceive the world around us. In the era of high-powered computing, researchers are taking new approaches to old questions about perception. Here is the link to the interview.

Manhattan Representational Geometry workshop

I co-organized the workshop with Nikolaus Kriegeskorte, Heiko Schuett and Xue-Xin Wei, and the workshop took place at Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute on January 6th and 7th, 2023. The workshop focused on:

• Clarifying the theory and mathematical foundation related to representational geometries;
• Updating the participants about theoretical and methodological developments and shared resources (e.g. data, code)
• Developing collaborations that connect theoretical ideas about representational geometry to experiments, including existing and future large-scale behavioral and brain-activity measurements.

Vision Journal Club at NYU

I organized Vision Journal Club at NYU since 2016, with Hormet Yiltiz (2016-2017), Kathryn Bonnen (2019-2021), and Robert Woodry (2021-present). We encourage communications between perception, sensory neuroscience and the theory community. We studied various papers in each of these three fields, with invited outside speakers since 2022.

Book review on Amir Alexander’s “Proof! How the World Became Geometrical”

Here is the book review published at the Cooper Square Review. Here is the original book.