Felipe Parodi
Hello, I’m Felipe — a PhD Candidate in the Computational Neuroscience Initiative at the University of Pennsylvania. I study how primate brains encode social intelligence and how these principles can inform artificial ones.
I went to college at the University of Miami, where I studied Neuroscience and Economics. I then briefly worked as a Psychometrician before grad school.
My research combines neurosciences, machine learning, and animal behavior to model natural social behavior from multiple data streams, including neural, video, and audio data.
I’ve extended some of these methods to projects at Google, where I worked on LLM-driven evaluation of generative music.
I’m co-advised by Konrad Kording and Michael Platt.
Recent work:
- Primate neuroethology: a new synthesis — why we should study primate intelligence in more natural conditions.
- PrimateFace — a machine learning resource for cross-species primate facial analysis.
I also maintain awesome-computational-primatology, a community resource at the intersection of machine learning and primatology. Contributions welcome!
Get in touch if you’d like to connect!
Latest News
- Dec 2025: 🎉 Awarded Gemini Academic Program credits to support our AI for behavior modeling work.
- Dec 2025: 🗞️ Our synthesis on primate neuroethology was featured in Big Think!
- Dec 2025: Gave a guest lecture on (AI for) primatology at Marc Schmidt & Yun Ding’s Animal Behavior course at UPenn. Slides here.
- Oct 2025: PrimateFace accepted to NeurIPS AI for Animal Communication Workshop (oral) and Foundation Models for the Brain and Body Workshop (poster)!
- Sep 2025: 📝 Published Primate neuroethology: a new synthesis on why we should study primate behavior in real-world conditions.