Po-Chen (Frederic) Kuo

🤖+🧠 = better representation. We advance model interpretability by linking meta-RL internal states to Bayes-optimal belief representations, offering a Bayesian account for the empirical success of predictive objectives in deep RL. Come chat with us at #NeurIPS2025👋! (7/7)

Better representations → Better exploration and generalization. With improved representation learning, our agents achieve superior policy learning in information seeking tasks, zero-shot generalization, and faster transfer learning to new environments. (6/7)

New #NeurIPS2025 paper 🚨: “Predictive Coding Enhances Meta-RL To Achieve Interpretable Bayes-Optimal Belief Representation Under Partial Observability” with @hou_han_, @wwdabney, and @eywalker! 📄 arxiv.org/abs/2510.22039 (1/7)

@mgkumar138 Huge congrats Ganesh!!

I am extremely grateful to be awarded the National University of Singapore (NUS) Development Grant, and to be a Young NUS Fellow! Look forward to collaborating with the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine. This is my first grant and hopefully many more to come! #NUS #NeuroAI

@Kwokszechai @ShuKitEricTam1 @DukeKunshan Thank you very much for the invitation! Look forward to the discussion!

kwoklab.org/event/guest-sp… invited by @ShuKitEricTam1 and i @DukeKunshan looking forward to interacting wtih @fredpckuo

University of Washington biochemist David Baker has won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his pioneering work designing new proteins that can neutralize viruses, target cancer cells, and more. Read more from @uwmedicine: go.uw.edu/2024NobelPrize #NobelPrize #GoHuskies

BREAKING NEWS The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2024 #NobelPrize in Physics to John J. Hopfield and Geoffrey E. Hinton “for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks.”

This summer, we partnered with @TReNDinAfrica to host a computational #neuroscience course, built on our #openscience tools & data, for 20 students from across the African continent. Simangele Shablala, a Ph.D., at @ukzn, shares highlights from the course. #OpenScienceWeek

BIG News to share📢 We are celebrating the official start of the Department of Neurobiology and Biophysics! PBIO + @biostructureuw are now NBIO. 💪 Check our our new site: nbio.uw.edu #nbioday #GlowUp

@Lumi871 @GTCSE Huge congrats!!

This summer, we partnered with @TReNDinAfrica to host a computational neuroscience course, built on Allen Institute tools and data, for 20 students from across the African continent. Simangele Shablala, a Ph.D. student at @ukzn, shares highlights from the course.

#CCN2024 starts tomorrow! We're excited to welcome attendees to Boston. Here is a thread with some helpful know-before-you-go info for attendees.

Teaching on the @trend_camina (@TReNDinAfrica) summer school (Rwanda) was an incredible experience. Both the students and staff (below) were super inspiring! @saraysoldado, @jsoldadomagrane, @TomNotGeorge, @artemiskoum, @burakgur_, @tmchartrand, @fredpckuo, @devonjarvi5 etc

Day 1-5 📸 Our students are continuesly introduced to #openscience concepts & they are loving it! 👇they are using #Spikeling by @OpenSourceNeuro and #Lu.i by @sbillaudelle @NeuroTMA @BrainScaleS to understand neuron spiking & working with #opendata from the @AllenInstitute /n

Day 3 kicked off with a part we have been very excited about!🥳🤩 Researchers @mabuice @fredpckuo Saskia de Vries & Tom Chartrand from the @AllenInstitute have joined our team to train our students on working with their #opendata

Registration for the 2024 CoNectome symposium is open! QR code in the flyer👇