Zachary Laborde

PhD Candidate in Cognitive Science & Neural Science

Improving Artificial Intelligence with Natural Intelligence.

About Me

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I am a PhD Candidate in Cognitive Science and Neural Science at Indiana University. I work in the Building a Mind Lab, uncovering how AI models operate in embodied contexts in comparison to natural intelligence and unifying the cognition sciences under a single framework.

4 years experience
in Industry
8 years experience
in Research

Skills

PyTorch PyTorch Lightning Stable Baselines3 Gymnasium RLLTE Scikit-learn Pandas NumPy NetworkX OpenCV Git Unity

Experience

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PhD in Cognitive Science & Neural Science

Indiana University Bloomington
2021 - 2026
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Software Engineer

IBM
2017 - 2021
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Research Assistant

Dartmouth College
2016
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B.S. in Psychology, Minor in Computer Science

2013 - 2017

Portfolio

Newborn Embodied Turing Test - AI research project visualization

Newborn Embodied Turing Test

Benchmarking Virtual Agents in Controlled-Rearing Conditions

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Spatial Embedded Edge Model - C. Elegans neural network comparison project

Spatial Embedded Edge Model

A Model for Comparison to the C. Elegans Neural Network

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Dynamical Analysis of Homeostatic Cellular Topologies - population dynamics research tool

Dynamical Analysis of Homeostatic Cellular Topologies

An online tool for understanding and manipulating the population dynamics of cellular lineages.

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IBM Cloud Event Management - DevOps monitoring and alerting system

IBM Cloud Event Management

A website and mobile app for tracking, managing, and alerting to server events for DevOps.

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