About Mitchell Ostrow

Computational Neuroscience PhD Candidate at MIT.

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I’m a 3rd year PhD student at MIT. I’m interested in bridging systems neuroscience, cognitive science, and deep learning through the lens of dynamical systems theory and machine learning. To that end, I design and use quantitative methods to understand computations performed by both biological and artificial neural networks. I’ve worked in medicine (as an EMT), experimental neuroscience, computational neuroscience, and artificial intelligence (in industry).

I also work as a freelance editor, especially for college admission essays and graduate school statements of purpose, but I can edit both technical and non-technical pieces more generally. Feel free to reach out to me at [last-name] (at) mit.edu if you’re interested.

I’m fortunate to have been supported at MIT by the Computationally-Enabled Integrative Neuroscience Fellowship and the Praecis Presidential Fellowship. I’m currently supported by the NSF GRFP.

Simply Neuroscience interviewed me on their podcast, The Synapse, about doing neuroscience research at Yale. Link here.

selected publications

  1. Delay Embedding Theory of Neural Sequence Models
    Mitchell Ostrow, Adam Eisen, and Ila Fiete
    2024
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    Representational Geometry of Social Inference and Generalization in a Competitive Game
    Mitchell Ostrow, G.R. Yang, and H. Seo
    Robotics: Science and Systems , 2022
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    Beyond Geometry: Comparing the Temporal Structure of Computation in Neural Circuits with Dynamical Similarity Analysis
    Mitchell Ostrow, Adam Eisen, Leo Kozachkov, and 1 more author
    Neural Information Processing Systems, 2023