Ekaterina Gribkova
Co-Founder at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Urbana, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolEkaterina Gribkova is a computational neuroscientist and entrepreneur with eight years of experience building biologically inspired AI and memory models as Co-Founder of Entience and a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. She develops architecturally minimal yet mechanistic models—like Cyberslug, ASIMOV and SITDL—that translate animal approach/avoidance circuitry, episodic memory and neuroplasticity into algorithms for spatial learning and cognitive mapping. Her work bridges hands-on experimental studies (including octopus behavior and arm-circuit modeling) with theoretical model-building, enabling synthetic agents grounded in real neuroethology. Based in Urbana, she combines a PhD in Neuroscience and a dual undergraduate background in mathematics and molecular & cellular biology to iterate between data, theory and implementation.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Mathematics; Molecular and Cellular Biology, Bachelor of Science - BS, Mathematics; Molecular and Cellular Biology at University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignGithub contributions (5)
Entience/ASIMOV
Dec 2018 - Feb 2022
Contributions:24 commits, 23 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 1 month
KatyaGribkova/SITDL
Jan 2021 - Feb 2024
Contributions:27 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 1 month
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