#  Kathleen Esfahany 

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**Thesis advisor:** Jordan Farrell  
  
**Rotation labs:** Mark Andermann, Chinfei Chen, Albert Lee, Jordan Farrell  
  
**For me, home is:** Setauket, NY  
  
**Undergraduate degree(s):** B.S. in Computation and Cognition (MIT 2023)  
  
**Research experience before PiN:** Before college, I studied neural population coding in the visual system at Stony Brook University as a 2017 Simons Summer Research Fellow. As an undergraduate at MIT, I studied the effects of sleep and dreams on creativity with the Fluid Interfaces group at the MIT Media Lab and the Center for Sleep and Cognition at BIDMC. Before PiN, I studied representational drift in the visual system as an intern at the Allen Institute.  
  
**Current research interests:** systems neuroscience, sleep, learning and memory, drift, brain/body connection  
  
**Interests outside lab:** making art, running, enjoying the outdoors, exploring yummy recipes and restaurants



 

 

 





 

 

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