About

Introduction

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Hi and welcome to my website! I’m Jesse Parent, a post-bac research scholar at Orthogonal Research and Education Lab, as part of their Representational Brains & Phenotypes research team. Follow my research, science communication and outreach journey via Twitter and Instagram.

I completed my B.S. in 2019 at the State University of New York, University at Albany. My undergraduate research experience spanned several topics and departments, including affective computing, computer science, and neuroscience. Combined with independent projects on artificial intelligence and ethics of AI, my passion for academic collaboration was solidified and I'm currently preparing myself for graduate studies in computation and cognition.

Current research projects include:

• Representational Brains and Phenotypes: Using Developmental Braitenberg Vehicles as models for neurobehavioral complexity (Orthogonal Lab) [ResearchGate]
• FrontierMap: A Learning Database: The Lay of the Land in Computation & Cognition: Developing a set of visual maps, literature review, educational notes, and related material to serve as a set of primers to aid in researchers defining their research agendas (Orthogonal Lab, OpenWorm: DevoWorm & DevoWormML)
• Upcoming: Contextual Neurodevelopmental Dynamics: Building from my work with Developmental Braitenberg Vehicles, this project will begin in summer 2020 (Orthogonal Lab) [NeuroStars]