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About Me

I am a Junior Fellow of the Harvard Society of Fellows, and an affiliate of the Harvard Center for Brain Science. My research interests lie in some neighborhood of the intersection between theoretical neuroscience, statistical physics, and machine learning. For more information about my work, see some of my recent publications, as well as my teaching experience and expository notes.

I earned my doctorate in physics at Harvard, under the supervision of Cengiz Pehlevan. My thesis considered a few topics in the statistical mechanics of neural networks. Before that, I did my undergraduate work in physics at Yale, where I worked with Damon Clark on visual motion detection and locomotor coordination in fruit flies.

A postdoctoral position is available in my group at the Center for Brain Science. Stay tuned for an official posting.

News from the past year

I can also be found on Bluesky or Mastodon. In official contexts I use my full name, so you’ll find me listed as Jacob Andreas Zavatone-Veth.