#  Yutaka Sprague 

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**Rotation labs:** Jan Drugowitsch, Carlos Ponce, Bence Olveczky, Sam Gershman

**For me, home is:** Reston, Virginia

**Prior degree(s):** B.S. in computer science and neuroscience with a certificate in Science & Society (Duke University)

**Research experience before PiN:** Genetic mechanisms of Alzheimer’s disease (Chiba-Falek lab, Duke), software and models for closed-loop neuromodulation in larval zebrafish (Pearson lab, Duke), machine learning models and tools for analysis of whole-brain calcium imaging in C. elegans (Kato lab, UCSF)

**Current research interests:** Computational neuroscience, machine learning, interpretable dimensionality reduction, latent space neural computation, neural encoding

**Interests outside lab:** Live music, cooking, fine dining, video games, fashion, travel, science policy



 

 

 





 

 

- ## Entry year
    
     [2024-2025](/entry-year/2024-2025)
- ## People
    
     [Student](/people/student)