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Ryan Raut

Shanahan Foundation Fellow
Allen Institute
University of Washington, Seattle
ryan.raut (at) alleninstitute.org

systems / theoretical neuroscience

About

Hello! I am currently a Shanahan Foundation Fellow at the Allen Institute and the University of Washington, Seattle – where I split my time between the AI Institute in Dynamic Systems and the UW Computational Neuroscience Center. Prior to Seattle I completed my PhD in neuroscience with Marcus Raichle at Washington University in St. Louis.

Research interests

In a nutshell, I am interested in understanding general principles of how brains work – uncovering the rules and regularities of how brain dynamics unfold across spatiotemporal scales and species. I’m especially focused on discovering and integrating this knowledge into holistic accounts of what brains do: specifically, mathematical, physiological, and behavioral descriptions considered in a context that spans the whole brain, organism, and its environmental interactions. This perspective motivates a data-centric dynamical modeling approach to the study of brain function, placing my research agenda at the intersection of neuroscience, dynamical systems theory, and scientific machine learning.

I’m fortunate to be in a unique position that enables the interdisciplinary training and collaboration this agenda requires. At UW, I primarily work with Professors Nathan Kutz, Bing Brunton, and Steve Brunton, where I seek to combine machine learning and dynamical systems theory to improve our ability to draw inferences about brains and other complex systems from the incomplete, noisy measurements that we typically access. At the Allen Institute I primarily work with Anton Arkhipov, where I seek to bring insights derived from these data-driven methods to biologically detailed datasets and models. The goal is to synthesize wide-ranging empirical observations within mathematical frameworks, clarifying specific biological hypotheses that can be tested through close collaboration with experimentalists.

Papers

For the most up-to-date listing, please visit my Google Scholar page.

Preprints

Peer-reviewed