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Benjamin Cowley, Ph.D. cowley [at] cshl.edu Benjamin R. Cowley @BenjoCowley @cowleygroup (office) Freeman Building, Rm 113

Assistant Professor in Neuroscience, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory	2022-present
Postdoctoral researcher at Princeton Neuroscience Institute, Princeton University     Advisors: Jonathan Pillow and Mala Murthy	2018-2022
PhD in Machine Learning, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University     Advisors: Byron Yu and Matthew Smith	2012-2018
B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University	2008-2012

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Research interests

I am interested in uncovering the step-by-step computations of the brain. I develop and employ a wide range of machine learning techniques, including deep learning and active learning, to identify and characterize these computations.