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Philip Greengard, Ph.D.

Associate Research Scientist, Center for Computational Neuroscience

Bio

Philip Greengard is an associate research scientist in the Flatiron Institute’s Center for Computational Neuroscience. His research is mainly focused on building mathematical tools for applied statistics problems. Prior to joining the Flatiron Institute, Greengard was a postdoc at Columbia University, where he worked on computational Bayesian statistics. He has a Ph.D. in applied mathematics from Yale University, where he focused on numerical analysis.

Publications

The Squealer: Sensification of model exploration and model misfit

arXiv:2606.29842, June 29, 2026

Andrew Gelman, Andrew H. Jaffe, Eliot Carlson, and Philip Greengard

Approximate posterior recalibration

arXiv:2603.20068, March 20, 2026

Tiffany Cai, Philip Greengard, Ben Goodrich, and Andrew Gelman

A Network of Biologically Inspired Rectified Spectral Units (ReSUs) Learns Hierarchical Features Without Error Backpropagation

Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, arXiv:2512.23146, March 14, 2026

Shanshan Qin, Joshua L. Pughe-Sanford, Alexander Genkin, Pembe Gizem Ozdil, Philip Greengard, Anirvan M. Sengupta, et al.

Neurons as Detectors of Coherent Sets in Sensory Dynamics

The Thirty-ninth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2025), arXiv:2510.26955, January 21, 2026

Joshua L. Pughe-Sanford, Xuehao Ding, Jason Moore, Anirvan M. Sengupta, Charles L. Epstein, Philip Greengard, et al.

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