AIDAN SCHNEIDER, GRADUATE STUDENT, COMPUTATIONAL & SYSTEMS BIOLOGY PROGRAM

Brain states (from arousal to attention to appetite) may vary dynamically in concert with diverse behavior. I develop and apply unsupervised methods to chart the landscape of neural activity across brain states. Further, I use supervised models to track free behavior's wandering path through this statescape. I hope my work will help characterize the extent to which brain states are distinctly separable, stable over time, and consistent across regions. This work relies on extensive collaborations with the Dyer lab at Georgia Tech and members of the Haussler lab at UC Santa Cruz.

Away from keyboard, I enjoy hiking and tabletop role-playing games.