About me:

Hi, I’m Jacob! I’m a third-year Cognitive Neuroscience PhD candidate in the Department of Psychology at Harvard.

I work at the intersection of neuroscience and artificial intelligence, with a goal of understanding how the visual system transforms the rich sensory content of our world into the set of neural representations that support the array of visual behaviors we perform each day - from object and facial recognition, to spatial navigation, to reading and writing.

In pursuing these insights, I measure people’s brains (using fMRI) and their behavior (using visual tasks), and use the tools of modern computer vision (primarily deep learning) to develop better models of human visual cortex.

My home is in the Vision Sciences Laboratory, led by Drs. Talia Konkle and George Alvarez. Previously I worked as a Lab Manager/RA at Carnegie Mellon with Dr. Michael Tarr, and I graduated from Yale with a degree in Cognitive Science in 2018.

Check out my computational tutorial on GLMsingle delivered at MIT in April 2022:

Here’s my poster walkthrough from the Vision Sciences Society 2021 Conference:

My recorded talk from the Vision Sciences Society 2020 Conference: