Adam S. Lowet

I like using machine learning to understand brains and using neuroscience to understand machines.

Adam S. Lowet

Hi there! I'm a neuro-AI researcher based in the San Francisco Bay Area interested in a broad range of topics, including systems neuroscience, neuroethology, reinforcement learning, and mechanistic interpretability. I'm currently a postdoctoral researcher at UC Berkeley in the lab of Michael Yartsev, where I combine cutting-edge ML techniques with the extraordinary behavioral repertoire of bats to answer fundamental questions about decision-making in social and naturalistic contexts. Before that, I completed my Ph.D. in Neuroscience at Harvard, where I worked with Naoshige Uchida on the neural circuit basis of distributional RL. I also spent a brief stint conducting research with Kola Ayonrinde on mechanistic interpretability of large language models, using novel variants of sparse autoencoders to understand LLM features with differing levels of sparsity and abstraction. Feel free to reach out to me with any comments or requests for collaboration!

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