Alexander Ku
I'm a PhD student at Princeton University (Psychology & Neuroscience), advised by
Tom Griffiths and
Jon Cohen, and a part-time Research Scientist at Google DeepMind.
I study how neural networks develop internal representations that support both automatic and controlled processing.
My work focuses on the tradeoff between efficiency and flexibility—how systems can rapidly bind information in a controlled,
context-sensitive manner while also forming stable, generalizable structures through automatic, statistical learning.
I investigate how this tradeoff is optimized across different timescales, using tools from Bayesian statistics and information theory.
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