Hello! 👋
My name's Ryan and I'm a software engineer based in New Jersey, USA. I use he/they pronouns.
I work for the Seung Lab at the Princeton Neuroscience Institute on FlyWire, and other petabyte-scale connectomic projects. We volumetrically image nervous tissue at nanoscopic resolution at the largest spatial scales possible, as fast as possible, to observe, reconstruct, and understand the structure and connectivity of nervous systems. We recently published the first ever complete connectome of a whole drosophila brain, and are hard at work developing the technology necessary to create the next generation of connectomic datasets, scaling up to mammals and down to molecules.
In addition to connectomics, I'm interested in research areas of brain and mind such as computational cognitive science and computational psychiatry. I'm also deeply interested in the development and application of deep learning and artificial intelligence, particularly areas relevant to alignment such as mechanistic interpretability, robust evaluation, and responsible scaling.
Previously, I worked at Zocdoc and Lingraphica, and studied computer science and engineering at Rutgers University.
Outside of work and research, I love: nature, games, music, dancing, birds, theatre, maps, coffee, food - among other things!
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