Hi, I'm Jascha Achterberg, a Neuroscience and AI Researcher at the University of Oxford*.

*(The information on this website is not quite up to date as it has been extremely busy on my end, working on super exciting new projects. I finished my PhD and moved to the University of Oxford as a Career Development Research Fellow at St John's College. I am working on a startup in stealth. I will update the information on this website very soon! Information from my PhD days can be found below, which describes my academic interests.)

As a PhD student at the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, I study the general principle underlying computations in biological and artificial intelligence. I combine large scale neuroscience data with artificial neural networks and hardware-optimisation to work out which features underlie highly efficient learning and inference in brains to translate them into neuroscience-inspired artificial intelligence (NeuroAI). With this I hope to understand the general principles underlying computation in biological and artificial networks.

To achieve this very interdisciplinary goal, I am supervised by John Duncan (Cambridge) and Matthew Botvinick (Google DeepMind). My research is funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation through a Gates Cambridge Scholarship. I am also a part of the NeuroAI research team at Intel Labs.