I'm delighted to announce that I'll join MIT EECS as an Assistant Professor next Fall! I will be recruiting graduate students this cycle, please apply if you're interested in the science of deep learning! Despite the ambient doomerism, now is a great time to do research.

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Next Thursday! 🗓 Join us for SYNAPSES 2026, co-sponsored by @yaleneuro.bsky.social, featuring six neuroscience postdocs from institutions across the country presenting their work: @albarran.bsky.social, Baijie Xu, Eunji Kong, Dominic Frank, @sarahnaguib.bsky.social, and Salomon Müller.

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New preprint out (first from my new group!) 🚨 "Predictive Grid Cell Coding Does Not Require Explicit Planning" biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 1/

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And now our paper is published in Cell Reports! www.cell.com/cell-reports...

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Almost four years ago, An and I were just starting to prepare this manuscript when tragedy struck. Since then, Qiyu and the team have worked extremely hard to bring this study to light. I could not be more proud of them.

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