Jin Hwa Lee

Hi, I’m Jin (she/her)!

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 neural mechanisms behind.

Before starting my PhD journey, I completed my master’s degree in TU Munich. I was supervised by Mackenzie Mathis and developed CEBRA for my master’s thesis project.

See Research for more on previous/ongoing projects.