Naoki Hiratani, Ph.D. — Principal investigator

Naoki Hiratani is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Neuroscience at Washington University in St Louis. He was previously a Swartz Postdoctoral Fellow in Haim Sompolinsky lab at the Center for Brain Science, Harvard University, working on the neural mechanism of structured knowledge processing, and synaptic credit assignment in the mammalian cerebellum and the octopus vertical lobe. Before that, he was a Research Assistant/Fellow in Peter Latham lab at the Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, UCL, where he studied the development and evolution of olfactory systems, perturbation-based learning of deep neural networks, and behavioral analysis of the International Brain Laboratory experiment. He obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Tokyo for his work in Tomoki Fukai lab at RIKEN Brain Science Institute on phenomenological and normative models of dendritic synaptic plasticity and learning in recurrent neural networks.