Welcome!

My name is Felipe and I’m a PhD Candidate in the Computational Neuroscience Initiative at Penn. I am co-supervised by Konrad Kording and Michael Platt, under whom I study the neural processes underlying primate social behaviors. I am interested in how primates naturally behave and interact with the environment. To do this, I pool techniques from neuroengineering, deep learning, and ethology.

I maintain awesome-computational-primatology. If you’re interested in research at the intersection of machine learning and primatology, consider contributing.

If you have similar interests or simply want to chat, please reach out!

Interests

• Machine learning: deep learning, multi-modal approaches, 3D computer vision
• Behavior: Primate neuroethology, social behavior, gestural communication
• Neuroscience: brain-computer interfaces, neural decoding

Education

• Ph.D. in Neuroscience, 2020–Present, University of Pennsylvania
• B.S. in Neuroscience; B.A. in Economics, 2015–2019, University of Miami