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General Information
| Name | Ann Huang |
| Location | Cambridge, MA, USA |
| annhuang@g.harvard.edu |
Education
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2023.08 – Present PhD in Neuroscience
Harvard University - Supervised by Kanaka Rajan
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2019.09 – 2023.05 Bachelor of Science
McGill University - Honours Neuroscience; Minor in Mathematics and Computer Science
Research Experience
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2024.03 – Present Graduate Researcher, Rajan Lab
Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA - Supervised by Kanaka Rajan
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2021.09 – 2024.06 Research Assistant, Richards Lab
McGill & Mila, Montreal, QC, Canada - Supervised by Blake Richards
- Built deep RL agents to study time encoding in the brain
- Investigated how task-relevant information acquired during pretraining can be compressed into a prior over initial weights for RNNs
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2022.06 – 2023.05 Visiting Researcher, Mathis Lab
EPFL, Geneva, Switzerland - Supervised by Alexander Mathis
- Built bio-inspired hierarchical RL models for musculoskeletal motor control
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2021.09 – 2022.06 Research Assistant, Gershman Lab
Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA - Supervised by Sam Gershman
- Modeling action chunking as a consequence of policy compression under resource rationality
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2019.11 – 2021.05 Research Assistant, Brandon Lab
McGill, Montreal, QC, Canada - Supervised by Mark Brandon
- Long-term stability of spatial context representations in the hippocampus despite neural drift