{"id":79,"date":"2015-07-07T03:08:11","date_gmt":"2015-07-07T03:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tncg.csail.mit.edu\/?page_id=79"},"modified":"2024-02-06T14:50:15","modified_gmt":"2024-02-06T14:50:15","slug":"group-members-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ccg.csail.mit.edu\/?page_id=79","title":{"rendered":"Group Members"},"content":{"rendered":"<h6><a href=\"http:\/\/ccg.csail.mit.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/150x150_nir.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-78\" src=\"http:\/\/ccg.csail.mit.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/150x150_nir.png\" alt=\"150x150_nir\" width=\"150\" height=\"140\" \/><\/a><\/h6>\n<h6><strong>Principal Investigator<\/strong><\/h6>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/people.csail.mit.edu\/shanir\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nir Shavit<\/a>: <a href=\"mailto:shanir@mit.edu\">shanir@mit.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<h6><strong>Postdocs<\/strong><\/h6>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/people.csail.mit.edu\/joanne\/athey_thomas2-crop.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-78\" src=\"http:\/\/people.csail.mit.edu\/joanne\/athey_thomas2-crop.jpg\" alt=\"150x150_thomas\" width=\"150\" height=\"140\" \/><\/a><\/h6>\n<p>Thomas Athey: tathey_1@mit.edu. Thomas is interested generally in building efficient workflows for extracting brain anatomy from images, and mathematical frameworks to model anatomical data. He obtained his PhD under Michael Miller and Joshua Vogelstein at Johns Hopkins working with mesoscale data (10^-6 m.), and is excited to shift to microscale data (10^-9 m.) in the CCG group. He is supported by the MIT-Novo Nordisk Postdoctoral Fellows Program.<\/p>\n<h6><strong>Graduate Students<\/strong><\/h6>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/people.csail.mit.edu\/joanne\/Linghao.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-78\" src=\"http:\/\/people.csail.mit.edu\/joanne\/Linghao.jpg\" alt=\"150x150_shashata\" width=\"150\" height=\"140\" \/><\/a><\/h6>\n<p>Linghao Kong: linghao@mit.edu. Linghao is interested in understanding fundamental input\/output properties of neurons and how such properties contribute to local network behavior. His current projects include investigating how in vivo neurons synchronize their inputs and how sparsification affects neurons in LLMs.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/people.csail.mit.edu\/joanne\/shashata.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-78\" src=\"http:\/\/people.csail.mit.edu\/joanne\/shashata.jpeg\" alt=\"150x150_shashata\" width=\"150\" height=\"140\" \/><\/a><\/h6>\n<p>Shashata Sawmya: shashata@mit.edu. Shashata is interested in finding ways to democratize connectomics data acquisition and analysis. He also has interests in efficient machine learning, LLM compression, and efficient fine-tuning. Additionally, Shashata is intrigued by the parallels and distinctions between computational networks in silicon and in biological tissues, exploring the underlying principles that define functionality in these diverse systems.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/people.csail.mit.edu\/joanne\/TonyWang.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-78\" src=\"http:\/\/people.csail.mit.edu\/joanne\/TonyWang.jpg\" alt=\"150x150_tony\" width=\"150\" height=\"140\" \/><\/a><\/h6>\n<p>Tony Wang: twang6@mit.edu. 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Linghao is interested in understanding fundamental input\/output properties of neurons and how such properties contribute to local network behavior. 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