Balancing Theory and Practice in Machine Learning

Drew Linsley (Google Scholar) is a Paul J. Salem senior research associate at Brown, advised by Thomas Serre. He is working on building computational models of the visual system that serve the dual purpose of (1) explaining biological function and (2) extending artificial vision.

Highlights from our conversation:

🧠 Building neural-inspired inductive biases into computer vision

🖼 A learning algorithm to improve recurrent vision models (C-RBP)

🤖 Creating new benchmarks to move towards generalization