Felix Pei

PhD student, Carnegie Mellon University

Joined

August 2021

Names

Felix Pei (Preferred)

Felix C Pei

Emails

****@gatech.edu (Confirmed)

****@emory.edu (Confirmed)

****@uni-tuebingen.de (Confirmed)

****@andrew.cmu.edu (Confirmed)

Personal Links

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Career & Education History

PhD student

Carnegie Mellon University (cmu.edu)

2024 – Present

Intern

Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen (uni-tuebingen.de)

2023 – 2024

Undergrad student

Georgia Institute of Technology (gatech.edu)

2019 – 2023

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

PhD Advisor

Byron M. Yu

2025 – Present

PhD Rotation Advisor

Aran Nayebi

2024 – 2024

Research Advisor

Jakob H. Macke

2023 – 2024

Undergrad Advisor

Chethan Pandarinath

2020 – 2023

Expertise

computational neuroscience

2020 – Present

Publications

Intrinsic Goals for Autonomous Agents: Model-Based Exploration in Virtual Zebrafish Predicts Ethological Behavior and Whole-Brain Dynamics
Reece Keller, Alyn Kirsch, Felix Pei, Xaq Pitkow, Leo Kozachkov, Aran Nayebi
- NeurIPS 2025 poster
- Readers: Everyone
Inferring stochastic low-rank recurrent neural networks from neural data
Matthijs Pals, A Erdem Sağtekin, Felix C Pei, Manuel Gloeckler, Jakob H. Macke
- NeurIPS 2024 poster
- Readers: Everyone
Latent Diffusion for Neural Spiking Data
Jaivardhan Kapoor, Auguste Schulz, Julius Vetter, Felix C Pei, Richard Gao, Jakob H. Macke
- NeurIPS 2024 spotlight
- Readers: Everyone
A Practical Guide to Sample-based Statistical Distances for Evaluating Generative Models in Science
Sebastian Bischoff, Alana Darcher, Michael Deistler, Richard Gao, Franziska Gerken, Manuel Gloeckler, Lisa Haxel, Jaivardhan Kapoor, Janne K Lappalainen, Jakob H. Macke, Guy Moss, Matthijs Pals, Felix C Pei, Rachel Rapp, A Erdem Sağtekin, Cornelius Schröder, Auguste Schulz, Zinovia Stefanidi, Shoji Toyota, Linda Ulmer et al. (1 additional authors not shown)
- Accepted by TMLR
- Readers: Everyone
A Practical Guide to Statistical Distances for Evaluating Generative Models in Science
Sebastian Bischoff, Alana Darcher, Michael Deistler, Richard Gao, Franziska Gerken, Manuel Glöckler, Lisa Haxel, Jaivardhan Kapoor, Janne K. Lappalainen, Jakob H. Macke, Guy Moss, Matthijs Pals, Felix Pei, Rachel Rapp, A Erdem Sagtekin, Cornelius Schröder, Auguste Schulz, Zinovia Stefanidi, Shoji Toyota, Linda Ulmer et al. (1 additional authors not shown)
- CoRR 2024
- Readers: Everyone
Latent Diffusion for Neural Spiking Data
Jaivardhan Kapoor, Auguste Schulz, Julius Vetter, Felix Pei, Richard Gao, Jakob H. Macke
- NeurIPS 2024
- Readers: Everyone
Inferring stochastic low-rank recurrent neural networks from neural data
Matthijs Pals, A Erdem Sagtekin, Felix Pei, Manuel Glöckler, Jakob H. Macke
- NeurIPS 2024
- Readers: Everyone
sbi reloaded: a toolkit for simulation-based inference workflows
Jan Boelts, Michael Deistler, Manuel Glöckler, Álvaro Tejero-Cantero, Jan-Matthis Lueckmann, Guy Moss, Peter Steinbach, Thomas Moreau, Fabio Muratore, Julia Linhart, Conor Durkan, Julius Vetter, Benjamin Kurt Miller, Maternus Herold, Abolfazl Ziaeemehr, Matthijs Pals, Theo Gruner, Sebastian Bischoff, Nastya Krouglova, Richard Gao et al. (13 additional authors not shown)
- CoRR 2024
- Readers: Everyone
Neural Latents Benchmark ‘21: Evaluating latent variable models of neural population activity
Felix C Pei, Joel Ye, David M. Zoltowski, Anqi Wu, Raeed Hasan Chowdhury, Hansem Sohn, Joseph E O'Doherty, Krishna V. Shenoy, Matthew Kaufman, Mark M Churchland, Mehrdad Jazayeri, Lee E. Miller, Jonathan W. Pillow, Il Memming Park, Eva L Dyer, Chethan Pandarinath
- Published: 11 Oct 2021, Last Modified: 12 Oct 2025
- NeurIPS 2021 Datasets and Benchmarks Track (Round 2)
- Readers: Everyone
Neural Latents Benchmark '21: Evaluating latent variable models of neural population activity
Felix Pei, Joel Ye, David M. Zoltowski, Anqi Wu, Raeed H. Chowdhury, Hansem Sohn, Joseph E. O'Doherty, Krishna V. Shenoy, Matthew T. Kaufman, Mark M. Churchland, Mehrdad Jazayeri, Lee E. Miller, Jonathan W. Pillow, Il Memming Park, Eva L. Dyer, Chethan Pandarinath
- 2021 (modified: 16 Apr 2023)
- NeurIPS Datasets and Benchmarks 2021
- Readers: Everyone

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