Sign in

Adam J. Eisen

@adamjeisen.bsky.social
122 followers 90 following 17 posts

Computational Neuroscientist + ML Researcher | Control theory + deep learning to understand the brain | PhD Candidate @ MIT | (he) 🍁

PostsRepliesMedia
Reposted by Adam J. Eisen
Mitchell Ostrow @neurostrow.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Very excited to announce our most recent paper! TL;DR we made our prior work on comparing dynamics (DSA) much faster and generalizable to diverse data domains and problem settings (1/)
biorxiv.org
A metric for comparing complex systems by their dynamics
Comparisons are fundamental to science: experiment against model, one organism against another, a system against itself across time. Because many systems, from brains to climate, are characterized by ...
17118 0
Reposted by Adam J. Eisen
Earl K. Miller @earlkmiller.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
New results: Anesthesia may disrupt consciousness by weakening how brain regions influence one another. This is uneven, which may help explain bursts of activity seen under anesthesia. Disruption of interareal control during propofol anesthesia www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... #neuroscience
doi.org
2101 0
Reposted by Adam J. Eisen
Earl K. Miller @earlkmiller.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Congratulations to the newly minted *Dr.* Adam Eisen. He has that new Ph.D. smell. @adamjeisen.bsky.social @picowerinstitute.bsky.social
1451 0
Reposted by Adam J. Eisen
Earl K. Miller @earlkmiller.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
New lab photo. Miller Lab @ MIT #neuroscience @picowerinstitute.bsky.social
2331 0
Reposted by Adam J. Eisen
Earl K. Miller @earlkmiller.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
What Anesthesia Does to the Brain, According to a New Study time.com/article/2026... #neuroscience
time.com
What Anesthesia Does to the Brain, According to a New Study
Brain monitoring is uncovering surprising similarities among different anesthesia drugs.
0121 0
Reposted by Adam J. Eisen
The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory at MIT @picowerinstitute.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Research led by @adamjeisen.bsky.social, @earlkmiller.bsky.social and Ila Fiete in @cp-cellreports.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1016/j.ce...
doi.org
043 0
Reposted by Adam J. Eisen
Kempner Institute at Harvard University @kempnerinstitute.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
NEW from the #KempnerInstitute: InputDSA, a tool to separate intrinsic dynamics from input-driven effects—enabling accurate, efficient comparisons of complex systems with external inputs. Read the #DeeperLearning blog post by @annhuang42.bsky.social & @kanakarajanphd.bsky.social: bit.ly/4bkrvy9
bit.ly
InputDSA: Demixing then comparing recurrent and externally driven dynamics in complex systems - Kempner Institute
We explored how to measure the similarity between two complex systems when they are driven by external inputs, like biological neural circuits or reinforcement learning agents. Our novel method, calle...
0219 0
Reposted by Adam J. Eisen
Victor Geadah @vgeadah.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
In a system subject to unobserved control, can you infer both the underlying dynamics and the control objective? 🤔 A year ago, I was presenting our work at IEEE CDC on solving this problem for stochastic LQR. arxiv.org/abs/2502.15014 Short 🧵 on the results, and how I think about them a year later.
A neural population of dynamics x_t, the "system", is subject to control via inputs u_t. These inputs may come from the population itself or some other unobserved system. We only get partial observations y_t of the system in x_t, in the form of neural recordings.
1226 0
Reposted by Adam J. Eisen
Nancy Padilla-Coreano @drnancypadilla.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
This paper truly changed my life!!
0439 0
Reposted by Adam J. Eisen
Harrison Ritz @hritz.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
We put out this preprint a couple months ago, but I really wanted to replicate our findings before we went to publication. At first, what we found was very confusing! But when we dug in, it revealed a fascinating neural strategy for how we switch between tasks doi.org/10.1101/2024.09.29.615736 🧵
doi.org
Convergent neural dynamical systems for task control in artificial networks and human brains
The ability to switch between tasks is a core component of human intelligence, yet a mechanistic understanding of this capacity has remained elusive. Long-standing debates over how task switching is i...
310132 0
Reposted by Adam J. Eisen
Mitchell Ostrow @neurostrow.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Really proud of this project with @adamjeisen.bsky.social - Jacobian estimation is a challenging and generic problem in dynamics, and I’m excited for all the future use cases of our method! See you at NeurIPS 🧠💻
081 0
Reposted by Adam J. Eisen
Earl K. Miller @earlkmiller.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
General Bonkers makes weird music so you don't have to. New album. With tracks featuring very special guest star Dave Freedman. On the major platforms including Spotify: open.spotify.com/album/44QQ4x... Bandcamp: generalbonkers.bandcamp.com/album/im-goi...
open.spotify.com
I'm Going To Have To Science
0121 0
Adam J. Eisen @adamjeisen.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
How do brain areas control each other? 🧠🎛️ ✨In our NeurIPS 2025 Spotlight paper, we introduce a data-driven framework to answer this question using deep learning, nonlinear control, and differential geometry.🧵⬇️
18930 0
Reposted by Adam J. Eisen
Mitchell Ostrow @neurostrow.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Our next paper on comparing dynamical systems (with special interest to artificial and biological neural networks) is out!! Joint work with @annhuang42.bsky.social , as well as @satpreetsingh.bsky.social , @leokoz8.bsky.social , Ila Fiete, and @kanakarajanphd.bsky.social : arxiv.org/pdf/2510.25943
47124 0