Ali Hummos
Postdoctoral Researcher at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolAli Hummos is a computational neuroscientist and postdoctoral researcher based in San Francisco with eight years of experience bridging biological principles and machine learning. He develops dynamical algorithms that expand computation into neural network weight matrices, drawing on top-down feedback control ideas inspired by the brain. His toolset spans Python, TensorFlow, PyTorch, deep reinforcement learning, and evolutionary methods, with applied work in audio-visual speech recognition and multi-object tracking. Founder of Synaptic Intelligence and former AI researcher at Deepen AI, he combines entrepreneurial drive with rigorous academic research at MIT. Trained as both an MD and a PhD in computational neuroscience, he uniquely blends clinical insight in psychiatry with algorithmic innovation, informing models grounded in biological plausibility.
8 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Medicine (M.D.), Medicine, Doctor of Medicine (M.D.), Medicine at University of JordanUniversity of Missouri
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Github Skills (10)
pytorch10
python10
data-science9
jax9
tensorflow9
machine-learning9
deep-learning9
raspberry-pi6
numpy6
rtf1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
hummosa/MD
Sep 2020 - Jun 2021
Contributions:2 PRs, 120 pushes, 7 branches in 9 months
hummosa/EnergyARC
Jan 2020 - Jan 2020
Contributions:9 commits, 1 push in 25 days
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