Graduate Researcher, Computational Neuroscience
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México UNAM
May 2018 - Aug 2024 (6 years 4 months)
Conducted computational neuroscience research focused on neural population dynamics, decision-making systems, and biologically plausible modeling, contributing to publications in PNAS and Nature Communications.
• Applied statistical modeling, probabilistic analysis, and dimensionality reduction techniques to study neural encoding and decision-making processes
• Analyzed electrophysiological and behavioral datasets to characterize neural population dynamics and sensory categorization mechanisms
• Developed and evaluated biologically plausible neural network architectures for comparison against experimental neural activity data
• Designed data processing, visualization, and analysis pipelines using Python and MATLAB for re