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Chi-Ning Chou, Ph.D.

Flatiron Research Fellow, Center for Computational Neuroscience

Bio

Chi-Ning Chou is a Flatiron Research Fellow in the Center for Computational Neuroscience. Chi-Ning earned his Ph.D. in the theory of computation group at Harvard University. Before that, he received a bachelor’s degree in computer science (with a minor in math) at the National Taiwan University and worked as a research assistant in the Institute of Information Science at Academia Sinica for a year. His research interest is to understand the fundamental nature and limit of computation in different systems including the mathematical, the biological, and the physical ones. Outside academics, he enjoys all kinds of sports, cooking, reading, and classical music.

Publications

Two Speeds of Learning: A Representation-Readout Decomposition of Grokking and Double Descent

arXiv:2605.27078v2, May 28, 2026

C. Chou, Oscar Uzdelewicz, Neng-Chun Chiu, Yao-Yuan Yang, and S. Chung

Linear Readout of Neural Manifolds with Continuous Variables

arXiv:2603.10956v1, March 11, 2026

Will Slatton, C. Chou, and S. Chung

Diagnosing Generalization Failures from Representational Geometry Markers

International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), arXiv:2603.01879, March 2, 2026

C. Chou, A. Kirsanov, Yao-Yuan Yang, and S. Chung

Feature Learning beyond the Lazy-Rich Dichotomy: Insights from Representational Geometry

Proceedings of the 42nd International Conference on Machine Learning, arXiv:2503.18114v2, July 23, 2025

C. Chou, H. Le, Y. Wang, and S. Chung

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Understanding the human brain is one of the greatest and most challenging scientific frontiers of our time. CCN’s mission is to develop models, principles and conceptual frameworks that deepen our knowledge of brain function — both in health and in disease.

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