Yash Shah

Yash is a PhD student in the Department of Computer Science. He is interested in how the mammalian brain is functionally and spatially organized over the course of evolution, gestation, and development, and what mechanistic constraints, inductive biases, and environmental statistics shape that organization. To generate hypotheses about so, he uses deep artificial neural networks to study how their optimization under different constraints map to their match, both functionally and spatially, to the corresponding biological system being modeled. Prior to starting his PhD, he earned a Master’s degree in Computer Science from Stanford University and a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from the University of California, San Diego. In his free time, Yash likes to be outdoors, read and write, do art, and think about circles.