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General Information

Name Ann Huang
Location Cambridge, MA, USA
Email annhuang@g.harvard.edu

Education

  • 2023.08 – Present
    PhD in Neuroscience
    Harvard University
    • Supervised by Kanaka Rajan
  • 2019.09 – 2023.05
    Bachelor of Science
    McGill University
    • Honours Neuroscience; Minor in Mathematics and Computer Science

Research Experience

  • 2024.03 – Present
    Graduate Researcher, Rajan Lab
    Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA
    • Supervised by Kanaka Rajan
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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