My interest is to decipher learning principles of biological neurons, with an aim of discovering and understanding the fundamental elements of intelligence, so as to build the next-generation learning systems (for the next 10+ years 🚀).
Bio
I obtained my PhD from Oxford University, where I was awarded J.P. Morgan AI Research Award for identifying a family of learning principles from biological neurons (10 awardees worldwide). During this time, with a group of amazing scientists, I first-authored a Nature Neuroscience paper and some AI/ML conference papers (detailed in CV).
My research is presented in the Nature Portfolio collection of Nobel Prize in Physics 2024 and extensively discussed in a recent article on The Economist.
My research inspires 100x more efficient hardware for artificial neural networks, turning into a spinout from Oxford University: Fractile. I am fortunate to team up with Walter and cofound it in 2021 as the CTO. Fractile raised a total of $17.5M from various VCs and $6.3M from ARIA over 2021-2024 and I left Fractile in 2024 to pursue my next venture. In 2025, former Intel CEO, Pat Gelsinger, invested and joined Fractile.
I cofound Circlemind with Antonio and Luca in 2024. Circlemind is backed by YC at F24 batch.