Principal Investigator

Brian DePasquale Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering

I am an assistant professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Boston University where I run the Artificial and Biological Intelligence Laboratory. I did my postdoctoral research with Carlos Brody and Jonathan Pillow on latent variable models of evidence accumulation. During my Ph.D., I worked with Larry Abbott developing methods for training recurrent neural networks, and with Mark Churchland connecting these models conceptually to statistical models of low-dimensional dynamics applied to data. Before that I studied the basal ganglia in the laboratory of Ann Graybiel at MIT and completed by BS in physics at Fordham University.

Members

Yihan (Darcy) Zi Neuroscience (GPN) PhD student, joint with Mark Howe Grant McConachie BME PhD student Ryan Senne Neuroscience (GPN) PhD student, joint with Ben Scott

Collaborators

Collaborations are central to our research. Here are some of the groups we currently work with.

Economo Lab BME, BU Howe Lab Psychological & Brain Sciences, BU Scott Lab Psychological & Brain Sciences, BU Sen Lab BME, BU Younger Lab Biology, BU

Interested in joining?

Prospective PhDs

If you are interested in conducting research within the group as a PhD student, please apply to the BU BME PhD program or the BU graduate program in neuroscience. Unfortunately, I cannot respond to individual email inquiries about joining my group as a PhD student. If you are interested, apply to one of the programs above.

Admitted PhD students

My rotation project policy is to encourage you to bring your own ideas to the table. I try not to ‘assign’ projects (although I will if needed)!

Postdocs

If you are interested in a postdoc, please email Brian.