Benjamin R. Cowley (Preferred)
Benjamin R. Cowley
Assistant Professor, Neuroscience, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Joined
May 2025
Names
Emails
****@cshl.edu (Confirmed)
****@gmail.com (Confirmed)
Personal Links
Career & Education History
Assistant Professor
Neuroscience, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (cshl.edu)
2022 – Present
Postdoc
Princeton Neuroscience Institute, Princeton University (princeton.edu)
2018 – 2022
PhD student
Machine Learning, CMU, Carnegie Mellon University (andrew.cmu.edu)
2012 – 2018
Undergrad student
Electrical and Computer Engineering, CMU, Carnegie Mellon University (andrew.cmu.edu)
2008 – 2012
Advisors, Relations & Conflicts
Expertise
deep neural networks
, computational neuroscience
, visual neuroscience
, visual cortex
2018 – Present
active learning
, deep neural networks
, neural responses
, data pruning
2018 – Present
distillation
, pruning
, model interpretability
, human psychophysics
2018 – Present
macaque visual cortex
, fruit fly visual system
, singing mouse
2012 – Present
dimensionality reduction
2012 – Present