I am a computer science student. My current goal is to pursue a PhD in computational neuroscience. I work as a research assistant at a neuroscience lab in UPenn. At the lab, I was given the liberty to propose and research a novel mathematical model of intracortical inhibition/facilitation and its potential to predicte depression and slow-wave sleep deprivation using random forests. I have presented this research at the SLEEP 2024 conference, held in Houston, Texas. I am also the developer and maintainer of an official Julia package for EEG analysis.
My intellectual life, however, is hardly limited to neuroscience or computer science. Originally, I wanted to major in philosophy, to the study of which I devoted my teenage years. It was only at eighteen years of age that, upon discovering the work of Bertrand Russell, and subsequently that of Frege, I became interested in mathematics and formal logics. These interests, combined with my taste for the philosophy of mind, are what evolved into a passion for computer science and, particularly, its application to neuroscience.
I am also a (questionable) writer and musician. Despite what became my professional destiny, I like to think I am a literary man more than a scientific one.
This blog is not a professional blog. It is an attempt at building a shrine to all those which I hold to be the dearest things of life.