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Cengiz Pehlevan, Ph.D.

Research Scientist, Center for Computational Neuroscience

Affiliations
  • Assistant Professor of Applied Mathematics, Harvard University

Bio

Cengiz Pehlevan is an Assistant Professor of Applied Mathematics at Harvard University. Cengiz moved to Harvard from the Flatiron Institute’s Center for Computational Biology (CCB), where he was a a research scientist in Dmitri Chklovskii’s neuroscience group. Before CCB, he was a postdoctoral associate at Janelia Research Campus, and before that a Swartz Fellow at Harvard.

Cengiz received a doctorate in physics from Brown University and undergraduate degrees in physics and electrical engineering from Bogazici University. He is a native of Tosya, Turkey.

Publications

Biologically Plausible Online Principal Component Analysis Without Recurrent Neural Dynamics

arXiv:1810.06966, October 16, 2018

V. Minden, C. Pehlevan, and D. Chklovskii

Flexibility in motor timing constrains the topology and dynamics of pattern generator circuits

Nature Communications, 2018

C. Pehlevan, F. Ali, and B.P. Olveczky

Holography, Fractals and the Weyl Anomaly

arXiv:1802.05362, February 14, 2018

Gerald Guralnik, Zachary Guralnik, and C. Pehlevan

Why Do Similarity Matching Objectives Lead to Hebbian / Anti-Hebbian Networks?

Neural Computation, January 1, 2018

C. Pehlevan, Anirvan M Sengupta, and D. Chklovskii

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