"I am a computational cognitive neuroscientist, asking questions like "Can we understand what the brain is doing well enough to reproduce it in software?". My work involves training rodents to play structured games, then carefully studying both the choices that they make and the neural signals that underlie those choices. It also involves designing software agents that play the same games as the rodents, and using those agents as tools for understanding the brain.
After leaving Dartmouth, I moved to Princeton, where I did a PhD studying how the brain makes plans. In 2018, I moved to London, where I'm both a postdoc at University College London and a research scientist at DeepMind, studying how brains and artificial agents can use structured knowledge to learn efficiently."