Jin Hwa Lee
I am a PhD student at Sainsbury Wellcome Centre supervised by Andrew Saxe. At the moment, I am mainly intrigued by compositionality in learning and inference: How do animals discover useful motifs or concepts and flexibly reuse them to solve complex tasks? What is the neural mechanism that supports compositionality? Can we build an artificial intelligence system which exploits compositionality in learning and inference? To answer these questions, I aim to study both biological brains and artificial neural networks. I use artificial neural networks to model interesting cognitive/behavioural observations in humans and animals to bring quantitative understanding of the computational mechanisms behind.
Before starting my PhD journey, I did my Master’s degree in TU Munich and EPFL, and I was supervised by Mackenzie Mathis and developed CEBRA for my Master’s thesis project. I completed my Bachelor’s degree in Physics in KAIST.