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Sebastian Lee, Ph.D.

Flatiron Research Fellow, Center for Computational Neuroscience

Bio

Sebastian is a Flatiron Research Fellow with NeuroAI and Geometric Data Analysis under the direction of SueYeon Chung. His research interests are at the intersection of neuroscience and AI, especially on paradigms of reinforcement learning and curriculum learning. Prior to joining the Flatiron Institute, he completed his Ph.D. in London with Claudia Clopath and Andrew Saxe.

Publications

Task-Induced Representational Invariances Depend on Learning Objective in Deep RL

arXiv:2606.01868, June 1, 2026

Manu Srinath Halvagal, S. Lee, and S. Chung

A theory of initialisation’s impact on specialisation

Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment, November 17, 2025

Devon Jarvis, S. Lee, Clementine Carla Juliette Domine, Andrew M Saxe, and Stefano Sarao Mannelli

Uncertainty Prioritized Experience Replay

arXiv:2506.09270, June 10, 2025

Rodrigo Carrasco-Davis, S. Lee, Claudia Clopath, and Will Dabney

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