Staff Profiles

Xiaoxuan Jia joined the Allen Institute in 2016 as Scientist II in the neural coding group. The main focus of her research is to study how visual information is encoded and transmitted by analyzing simultaneously recorded neural population activity from multiple areas in mouse, and making use of optogenetic tools to manipulate the circuits. Before joining Allen Institute, she was a postdoc with Dr. James DiCarlo at MIT where she studied invariant object recognition in primates and human, specifically the unsupervised learning aspect of object recognition. Xiaoxuan got her B.S. from Tsinghua University and Ph.D. in Systems Neuroscience from Albert Einstein College of Medicine, where she studied early visual cortex in primates at Dr. Adam Kohn’s lab.

Research Interests

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Expertise

• Systems neuroscience
• Computational neuroscience
• Visual cortex
• Brain rhythms
• Object recognition
• Machine learning

Research Programs

• Neural Coding