I am a postdoctoral researcher in the "Prepared Minds" lab. My research is supported by the Leverhulme Trust. My work asks how machines can learn to better generalise from limited example, and specifically can they do so in a way that’s closer to how biological agents solve the same problem. We hypothesize that for animals, generalisation is supported by innate predispositions. Further, a combination of such predispositions may act as an inductive bias, constraining exploration and shaping the solution space.

Before coming to QMU,L I did an MSc and PhD at Ehud Ahissar’s lab @ Weizmann Institute. Prior to that I did a BSc @ the Hebrew University. Even before that I studied for a diploma of Jazz performance on electric bass.

More generally, I am interested in what exactly is cognition, what are its constituent building blocks, and how abstraction emerges from continuous, embodied experiences.

 I enjoy baking (anything dough related, especially pizza!), I like to tinker with my hands, and I watch a lot of movies. 

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