I am a Stanford PhD student working at the intersection of AI, neuroscience, and physics. I am advised by Scott Linderman. I study biological and artificial intelligence with physics and mathematics.

Contact: jsmekal at stanford dot edu

Things I’m interested in (among other things…)

  • complex systems
  • theories of self-organization (Free Energy Principle, Active Inference)
  • biologically-inspired learning (Predictive Coding)
  • explainability of complex systems through multi-scale approximate Bayesian inference
  • intersection of AI and biology

Things I worked on

Research