Nathaniel Sawtell

Full Professor, Columbia University

Joined

July 2019

Names

Nathaniel Sawtell

Emails

****@columbia.edu (Confirmed)

Personal Links

Career & Education History

Full Professor

Columbia University (columbia.edu)

2009 – Present

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

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Expertise

neuroscience

Present

Publications

Keypoint Annotation for Electrocommunication Source Separation with PIKAChU and RAIChU
Kaden Zheng, Sonja Johnson-Yu, Satpreet Harcharan Singh, Denis Turcu, Federico Pedraja, Pratyusha Sharma, Naomi Saphra, Nathaniel Sawtell, Kanaka Rajan
- NeurIPS 2025 AiForAnimalComms Workshop
- Readers: Everyone
Proposal: Deciphering Electrocommunication with MARL and Unsupervised Machine Translation
Satpreet Harcharan Singh, Sonja Johnson-Yu, Zhouyang Lu, Aaron Walsman, Federico Pedraja, Denis Turcu, Pratyusha Sharma, Naomi Saphra, Nathaniel Sawtell, Kanaka Rajan
- NeurIPS 2025 AiForAnimalComms Workshop
- Readers: Everyone
Understanding Electro-communication and Electro-sensing in Weakly Electric Fish using Multi-Agent Deep Reinforcement Learning
Satpreet Harcharan Singh, Sonja Johnson-Yu, Zhouyang Lu, Aaron Walsman, Federico Pedraja, Denis Turcu, Pratyusha Sharma, Naomi Saphra, Nathaniel Sawtell, Kanaka Rajan
- NeurIPS 2025 AiForAnimalComms Workshop
- Readers: Everyone
Lightning Pose: improved animal pose estimation via semi-supervised learning, Bayesian ensembling, and cloud-native open-source tools
Dan Biderman, Matthew R Whiteway, Cole Lincoln Hurwitz, Nicholas R Greenspan, Robert S Lee, Ankit Vishnubhotla, Michael Schartner, Julia M Huntenburg, Anup Khanal, Guido T Meijer, Jean-Paul G Noel, Alejandro Pan-Vazquez, Karolina Z Socha, Anne E Urai, International Brain Laboratory, Richard Warren, Dillon Noone, Federico Pedraja, John Patrick Cunningham, Nathaniel Sawtell et al. (1 additional authors not shown)
- Nature Methods
- Readers: Everyone
Understanding biological active sensing behaviors by interpreting learned artificial agent policies
Sonja Johnson-Yu, Satpreet Harcharan Singh, Federico Pedraja, Denis Turcu, Pratyusha Sharma, Naomi Saphra, Nathaniel Sawtell, Kanaka Rajan
- InterpPol @RLC-2024 Correctpaperthatfitsthetopic
- Readers: Everyone

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