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Gizem Özdil

@gzmozd.bsky.social
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🤖🧠 Research Fellow at the Kempner Institute at Harvard | PhD@EPFL | Previously @UniBogazici @FlatironCCN @GoogleDeepmind

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David G. Clark @david-g-clark.bsky.social · 14h
📣 Multiple Flatiron Research Fellow (FRF) postdoc positions are available in my @flatironinstitute.org group! We've never been better positioned to understand how high-dimensional nonlinear dynamical systems (neural circuits!) compute. If this is as exciting to you as it is to me, consider applying:
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Gizem Özdil @gzmozd.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
📣 CALL FOR PAPERS 📣 𝗖𝗼𝗥𝗟 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗸𝘀𝗵𝗼𝗽 𝗼𝗻 𝗠𝗲𝗺𝗼𝗿𝘆 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗥𝗼𝗯𝗼𝘁 𝗙𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗠𝗼𝗱𝗲𝗹𝘀 📅 Submission deadline: September 24, AoE 📢 Notifications: October 12 📍 Workshop: November 12 in Austin 📝 Submit: openreview.net/group?id=rob... #CoRL2026 More info at corl2026-memory.github.io
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Gizem Özdil @gzmozd.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Happy to answer any questions about the Kempner Fellowship! 🧠✨😊
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Gizem Özdil @gzmozd.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
🍎 Next time you see a fly cleaning itself on your fruit salad, you might think about it differently! ⬇️ Read this wonderful piece by the Kempner team on our work on fly grooming, including a short interview with me about the project. Link to the paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Centralized brain networks controlling antennal grooming coordination - Nature Communications
The neural basis of grooming behavior remains incompletely understood. Here, the authors combine behavior, biomechanical simulations, connectome analysis, and neural network modeling to uncover centra...
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Kempner Institute at Harvard University @kempnerinstitute.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
The #KempnerInstitute is hiring! 👇 ⏰ Application deadlines approaching: • June 1: Kempner AI Fellows (post BS/MS) • June 8: Postdoctoral AI Researchers (post PhD) Learn more and apply: bit.ly/439R2Gp #AI #NeuroAI
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Venki Murthy @neurovenki.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Nice piece in @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social about our @kempnerinstitute.bsky.social! I say a few things in it.
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Harvard's Kempner Institute Bet Big on AI. Now It Has to Prove Itself. | News | The Harvard Crimson
Harvard’s Kempner Institute made an early bet on owning its own AI computing cluster — a gamble that has quickly made it a rare academic hub for artificial intelligence research, even as private indus...
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Kempner Institute at Harvard University @kempnerinstitute.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
The #KempnerInstitute is Hiring! 👇 Explore our opportunities: - Kempner AI Fellows: for BS- or MS- level researchers - Postdoctoral AI Researchers: for recent PhD recipients - Educational Content & Curriculum Developer Learn more and apply! bit.ly/439R2Gp #AI #NeuroAI
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Benjamin Cowley @benjocowley.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
DNN models of the brain are getting bigger. Are we replacing one complicated system in vivo with another in silico? In new work, we seek the *smallest* DNN models of visual cortex, balancing prediction with parsimony. It turns out these compact models are surprisingly small! rdcu.be/e5H8G
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Compact deep neural network models of the visual cortex
Nature - Parsimonious deep neural network models can be used for prediction of visual neuron responses.
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Gizem Özdil @gzmozd.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Now accepted at #ICLR 🎊🙂 See you in Brazil! 🇧🇷
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Kempner Institute at Harvard University @kempnerinstitute.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Happy 2nd science birthday to the #KempnerInstitute! 🧠In our 2nd full year we reached 420+ members, 350+ papers, 3,200+ event attendees, and 3M+ GPU hours. See our strides in #intelligence research! Read the 2025 Annual Report: bit.ly/3LPSVmB @shamkakade.bsky.social @blsabatini.bsky.social
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Gizem Özdil @gzmozd.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
🪰 How do dozens of tiny fly muscles cooperate to move a leg? We’re excited to share the first 3D, data-driven musculoskeletal model of Drosophila legs based on Hill-type muscles, running in OpenSim and MuJoCo simulation environments. Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2509.06426
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Gizem Özdil @gzmozd.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Big life update: I’m super excited to be joining the Kempner Institute as a Research Fellow! If you’re curious about my research plans or just want to connect, please reach out! 😊
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Joao Barbosa @jbarbosa.org · 10/05/2025
Please RT🙏 Reach out if you want to help understand cognition by modelling, analyzing and/or collect large scale intracortical data from 👩🐒🐁 We're a friendly, diverse group (n>25) w/ this terrace 😎 in the center of Paris! See👇 for + info about the lab We have funding to support your application!
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Satpreet (Sat) Singh @satpreetsingh.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
📽️Recordings from our @cosynemeeting.bsky.social #COSYNE2025 workshop on “Agent-Based Models in Neuroscience: Complex Planning, Embodiment, and Beyond" are now online: neuro-agent-models.github.io 🧠🤖
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🤖 Agent-Based Models in Neuroscience
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Kanaka Rajan @kanakarajanphd.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Big showing from the Rajan Lab at @cosynemeeting.bsky.social! We have posters on everything from multi-agent social foraging to neuromodulated neural networks. Catch us in Poster Sessions 2 & 3 🧠🤖 #Cosyne2025 #NeuroAI #CompSci #neuroskyence
COSYNE 2025 Rajan lab posters. 
Friday, March 28 - Poster Session 2:
2-043: Emergent small-group foraging under variable group size, food scarcity, and sensory capabilities by Zhouyang (Hanson) Lu, Satpreet H Singh, Sonja Johnson-Yu, Aaron Walsman, Kanaka Rajan
2-058: 'Modeling rapid neuromodulation in the cortex-basal ganglia-thalamus loop' by Julia Costacurta and Yu Duan (co-first), John Assad, Kanaka Rajan and Scott Linderman (co-senior)
2-060: 'Measuring and Controlling Solution Degeneracy across Task-Trained RNNs' by Ann Huang, Satpreet Singh, Kanaka Rajan

Saturday, March 29 - Poster Session 3:

3-020: 'ForageWorld: RL agents in complex foraging arenas develop internal maps for navigation and planning' by Ryan Badman, Riley Simmons-Edler, Joshua Lunger, John Vastola, William Qian, Kanaka Rajan
3-109: 'Inhibition-stabilized disordered dynamics in mouse cortex during navigational decision-making' by Siyan Zhou, Ryan Badman, Charlotte Arlt, Kanaka Rajan, Christopher Harvey
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Gizem Özdil @gzmozd.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Only 4 days to go until our workshop!! 🪰🐁🤖 If you're at COSYNE, don't miss out on incredible talks and inspiring panel discussions at "Agent-Based Models in Neuroscience: Complex Planning, Embodiment, and Beyond" on March 31 :) Check out the latest schedule: neuro-agent-models.github.io
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Gizem Özdil @gzmozd.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
🚨 SUPER excited to announce our Cosyne workshop on Neuro Agents! 🤖🐁🪰🧠 We have an incredible lineup of speakers, check out the program! neuro-agent-models.github.io See you in Canada! 🇨🇦 #Cosyne #Cosyne2025 #NeuroAI
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Kris Jensen @kristorpjensen.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
I wrote an introduction to RL for neuroscience last year that was just published in NBDT: tinyurl.com/5f58zdy3 This review aims to provide some intuition for and derivations of RL methods commonly used in systems neuroscience, ranging from TD learning through the SR to deep and distributional RL!
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An introduction to reinforcement learning for neuroscience | Published in Neurons, Behavior, Data analysis, and Theory
By Kristopher T. Jensen. Reinforcement learning for neuroscientists
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ramdya.bsky.social @ramdya.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
As you unwrap your holiday presents, consider how you coordinate your fingers and limbs. @gzmozd.bsky.social identified fly brain networks for body part coordination through experiments, biomechanical modeling, connectomics, and neural network simulations ! 🤖 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Gizem Özdil @gzmozd.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
🧵 Ever seen a fly perform a full self-care ritual? 🪰 They meticulously rub their head and clean their antennae, ensuring every speck of dirt is gone. But how do they coordinate all those tiny body parts so seamlessly?👇
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