Publications – Theses

Steele, A. (2026). Using large language models to predict linguistic neurological intracranial signals for multimodal sentences. Harvard University. PDF

Talbot, M. (2026). Emulating and enhancing human visual perception and learning with image computable models. Harvard University. PDF

Otani, A. (2025). Mitigating catastrophic forgetting and mode collapse in text-to-image diffusion via latent replay. Harvard University. PDF

Krishnan, S. (2025). Beyond modalities: robust neural representation of language in the brain. Birla Insittute of Technology and Science. PDF

Bocini, E. (2025). Beyond anecdotal evidence: A systematic framework for evaluating neuron interpretability. Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne. PDF

Bricken, T. (2025). Sparse representations in artificial and biological neural networks. Harvard University. PDF

Narayanan, H. (2024). Classifying Ragams in carnatic music with machine learning models: a Shazam for south indican classical music. Thesis, Harvard University. PDF

Misra, P. (2024). Robust and multimodal signals for language in the brain. Thesis, Harvard University. PDF

Madan, S. (2024). Out-of-distribution generalization in biological and artificial intelligence. Harvard University. PDF

Li, C. (2024). Adding to and building up very small nervous systems. Thesis, Harvard University. PDF

Le Lan, B. (2024). Robust convolutional neural networks as models of primate vision. Thesis, EPFL. PDF

Kaminsky, T. (2024). Towards characterizing curriculum reinforcement learning in sparse robotics tasks. Thesis, Harvard University. PDF

Gillioz, V. (2024). Alignment of large language models and brain activity: exploring language processing through sEEG in a multimodal syntactic task. Thesis, ETH. PDF

Bechard, D. (2024). The pen and the processor: A Turing-like test to gauge GPT-generated poetry. Thesis, Harvard University. PDF

Alvandian, N. (2024). Testing the alignment of multimodal neural networks models to human brain areas. Thesis, EPFL. PDF

Srinivasan, R. (2023). Hebbian attractor to model working memory in complex human behavior. Thesis, ETH. PDF

Singh, D. (2023). Synaptic failure is a flat minima optimizer. Thesis, Harvard University. PDF

Luster, A. (2023). A data-driven description of sleep using intracranial EEG recordings. Thesis, EPFL. PDF

Gavish, I. (2023). Less than reckless: assessing the role of consciousness in the moral appraisal of risky action. Thesis, Harvard University. PDF

Djambazovska, S. (2023). Bridging artificial and primate vision: the impact of visual angle, scene context, and IT-alignment. Thesis, EPFL. PDF

Dellaferrera, G. (2023). Unveiling principles of neural computations: from biological to artificial intelligence and back. Thesis, ETH. PDF

Zergham, A. (2022). Biologically-inspired deep predictive learning for episodic memory event segmentation. Thesis, Harvard University. PDF

Xiao, W. (2022). Seeing context: macaque ventral visual responses to diverse stimuli and during natural vision. Thesis, Harvard University. PDF

Xiao, Y. (2022). Neural mechanisms underlying human cognitive control and working memory. Thesis, Harvard University. PDF

Porte, Y. (2022). Comparing neural responses between action execution and action perception. Thesis, EPFL. PDF

Lopez Sanchez, P. (2022). An intracranial EEG study on human short-term memory. Thesis, EPFL. PDF

Hakobyan, M. (2022). Dynamically decoding human physiological behaviors from intracranial field potentials. Thesis, Harvard University. PDF

Gollety, C. (2022). Neuronal correlates of rapid learning in a human visual memory task. Thesis, EPFL. PDF

Chandra, J. (2022). Classification of continuous natural human behavior using intracranial field potentials. Thesis, Harvard University. PDF

Bono, S. (2022). On structured domain generation for generalization in reinforcement learning. Thesis, ETH. PDF

Wang, J. (2021). Mesoscopic physiological interactions in the human brain reveal small-world properties and associations with behavior. Thesis, Harvard University. PDF

Schwencke, J. (2021). Movies and memory: how film editing can impact episodic memory formation. Thesis, Harvard University. PDF

Pollina, L. (2021). Combining neurophysiology and computational modeling through VGG19. Thesis, EPFL. PDF

Karev, D. (2021). Context-robust object recognition via object manipulation in a synthetic 3D environment. Thesis, Harvard University. PDF

Gupta, S. K. (2021). An integrated computational model of visual search combining eccentricity, bottom-up, and top-down cues. Thesis, India Institute of Technology, Kanpur. PDF

Casper, S. (2021). Efficient and insidious adversaries in deep reinforcement learning. Thesis, Harvard University. PDF

Cordier, A. (2020). Recognition of minimal images in the human brain. Thesis, EPFL. PDF

Zhang, M. (2019). Computational models of bottom-up and top-down attention. Thesis, National University of Singapore. PDF

Stothers, D. (2019). Turing’s child machine: a deep learning model of neural development. Thesis, Harvard University. PDF

Olson, J. (2019). Plasticity and firing rate dynamics in leaky integrate-and-fire models of cortical circuits. Thesis, Harvard University. PDF

Motschi, A. R. (2019). Movement-related characteristics of mirror neuron activity in humans and monkeys. Thesis, EPFL. PDF

Jacquot, V. (2019). Human vision versus computer vision to classify simple actions. Thesis, EPFL. PDF

Wu, K. (2018). Learning scene gist to Improve object recognition in convolutional neural networks. Thesis, Harvard University. PDF

Tsai, M. (2018). Neural circuits of visual pattern completion. Thesis, EPFL. PDF

Iaselli, E. (2018). 24 hours in the human brain. Thesis, EPFL. PDF

Grzelkowski, S. (2018). Spike-field coherence reveals complex cortical interactions in human visual memory task. Thesis, University of Amsterdam. PDF

Moerman, C. (2017). Behavioral and computational study on the recognition of novel occluded objects. Thesis, EPFL. PDF

Lotter, W. E. (2017). Prediction as a rule for unsupervised learning in deep neural networks. Thesis, Harvard University. PDF

Schrimpf, M. (2016). Brain-inspired recurrent neural algorithms for advanced object recognition. Thesis, Tehnische Universitat Munchen. PDF

Marconi, A. (2016). Quantifying episodic memories from real-world experience. Thesis, Emmanuel College. PDF

Lam, G. (2016). The volitional (in)significance of neuroscience: what libetian investigations can and cannot do for free will. Thesis, Harvard University. PDF

Tang, H. (2015). Role of recurrent computations in object completion. Thesis, Harvard University. PDF

Dowcett, S. (2015). Predicting episodic memories of movie events. Thesis, Emmanuel College. PDF

Kuhnke, P. (2014). The functional neuroanatomy of speech perception. Thesis, University of Osnabrück. PDF

Meyers, E. M. (2010). Using neural population decoding to understand high level visual processing. Thesis, MIT. PDF

Kreiman, G. (2002). On the neuronal activity in the human brain during visual recognition, imagery and binocular rivalry. Thesis, Caltech. PDF

Kreiman, G. (2002). Neural coding and feature extraction of time-varying signals. Thesis, Caltech. PDF