Jake Russin
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Providence, Rhode Island, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJake Russin is a postdoctoral research associate at Brown University who bridges computational neuroscience, cognitive science, and machine learning with nine years of research experience. He develops biologically inspired and neuroscience-informed deep learning models to study compositional generalization, hierarchical reinforcement learning, and predictive vision, and conducts human experiments to anchor models in behavior. Trained under leaders like Michael Frank, Ellie Pavlick, Randall O’Reilly, and Yoshua Bengio, he has applied his skills at top labs and industry research teams (Meta, Microsoft, Mila) on compositionality and interpretability in neuro-symbolic and NLP systems. Beyond publications and code, he combines wet‑lab experience in neurobiology with advanced computational methods—an uncommon blend that informs his pursuit of more biologically plausible AI.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Neuroscience, Philosophy, 3.7, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Neuroscience, Philosophy, 3.7 at Colorado CollegeNon-degree students program, 3.8, Non-degree students program, 3.8 at Yale UniversitySummer courses, Mathematics, 4.0, Summer courses, Mathematics, 4.0 at University of MarylandDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, PSYCHOLOGY, 4.0, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, PSYCHOLOGY, 4.0 at University of California, DavisDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Psychology and Neuroscience, 3.98, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Psychology and Neuroscience, 3.98 at University of Colorado Boulder
Github Skills (15)
android4
ios3
macos3
linux3
css3
windows3
golang3
cross-platform2
image-classification2
go2
svg2
webgpu2
transformer-models2
transformer2
vulkan1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
jlrussin/SCAN_experiments
Sep 2018 - May 2019
Contributions:240 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
jlrussin/syntactic_attention
May 2019 - Aug 2019
Contributions:67 commits, 56 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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