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 completed my B.S. in Neuroscience and B.A. in Economics at the University of Miami, and worked as a Psychometrician before graduate school.

My research combines neuroethology, machine learning, and neurotechnology to model natural social behavior from neural and video data. I’ve applied these methods at Google and Colossal Biosciences, where I worked on LLM evaluation and behavioral modeling.

I’m co-advised by Konrad Kording and Michael Platt.

Recent work:

1. Primate neuroethology: a new synthesis — why we should study primate intelligence in more natural conditions.
2. PrimateFace — a machine learning resource for cross-species primate facial analysis.

I am currently seeking Research Scientist and Machine Learning Engineer roles focused on AI for Science, social intelligence, and biologically-inspired learning. Get in touch if you’d like to connect.

I also maintain awesome-computational-primatology, a community resource at the intersection of machine learning and primatology. Contributions welcome!

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