Hayden Johnson

hayden [dot] johnson [at] vib [dot] be

I am a first-year PhD student in the Gonçalves Lab at VIB.AI and KU Leuven. My research uses tools from machine learning, Bayesian inference, and dynamical systems to uncover principles of robust and efficient computation in neural circuits.

Before moving to Belgium, I was a post-bacc researcher at the University of Minnesota with Thomas Naselaris, developing resource-rational models of mental imagery. As an undergraduate in computer science at UMN, I worked with Paul Schrater on an information-theoretic model of cognition and completed a research internship at NWEA building a machine-learning architecture for educational assessment .

Outside of research, I enjoy music, literature, and …

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