Myles Allred
Kempner Post-bac Scholar
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About
Myles grew up near St. Louis before moving to Chicago to complete his undergraduate studies, where at the University of Illinois Chicago he obtained degrees in neuroscience and mathematical computer science. There, in the lab of Dr. Katherine McMurray, he researched the neurocircuitry of comorbid psychiatric conditions including panic disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, and alcohol use disorder using preclinical models. Myles is fascinated by the intelligent behavior displayed across scales and kinds of systems, and hopes to use theory and modeling to uncover shared principles of collective intelligence.
Research Focus
Myles’s research focuses on connecting descriptions of intelligence across scales and levels of abstraction. Currently working in the NeuroAI & Geometric Data Analysis Lab, his focus is on neural computation through the lens of representation geometry and dynamics. This work involves a combination of training machine learning models, analyzing neural datasets, and developing mathematical theory connecting neural representation to behavioral competencies.