I’m Grace Lindsay. I’m a scientist and author.
I’m currently an Assistant Professor of Psychology and Data Science at New York University. You can visit my lab website here.
After a BS in neuroscience from the University of Pittsburgh and a year at the Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience in Freiburg, Germany, I got my PhD at the Center for Theoretical Neuroscience at Columbia University in the lab of Ken Miller. You can read about my thesis here. After that, I was a Sainsbury Wellcome Centre/Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit Research Fellow at University College London.
My work uses artificial neural networks to understand the brain (sometimes referred to as ‘NeuroAI’). I am particularly interested in studying the control and effects of attention on sensory processing. I am also interested in the “meta-science” question of whether or not the tools we use to make sense of neural activity are actually up to the task. This question is closely related to the field of AI Interpretability.
As faculty in the Center for Data Science I am also intent on helping students have real world impact by applying data science to real problems. To that end, I am particularly focused on machine learning for climate change applications (for example, through my work with Collaborative Earth).
I’ve also written a popular science book about how and why we use mathematics to understand the brain. It’s called Models of the Mind: How physics, engineering and mathematics have shaped our understanding of the brain. More info on the book and how to get it here.
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