Hello, my name is Ammar! I'm a PhD student at Harvard, where I work with Talia Konkle. My work combines computational modeling, neuroimaging, and human behavior to study the brain & mind. I feel incredibly lucky that I get to spend my days thinking about these questions. See my publications to get a sense of my most recent work.
My current work focuses on the structure of visual representations: where different kinds of information live in the brain, how these representations unfold over time, and how they relate to what people perceive and do. I hope this work can help explain how complex perceptual abilities emerge from simpler principles, in both biological & artificial systems.
Before graduate school, I was having the time of my life with Nancy Kanwisher at MIT. Before that, I grew up just east of Los Angeles, raised by my mom and two older sisters. They are the best people I know.